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Profitable vs Improvable - What's the difference?

profitable | improvable |

As adjectives the difference between profitable and improvable

is that profitable is producing a profit while improvable is capable of being improved; susceptible of improvement; admitting of being made better; capable of cultivation, or of being advanced in good qualities.

profitable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Producing a profit.
  • * (Aeschylus)
    • It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=(Oliver Burkeman)
    • , volume=189, issue=2, page=27, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= The tao of tech , passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable . Web companies like to boast about "creating compelling content", or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing"

    Synonyms

    * lucrative

    Antonyms

    * unprofitable

    Derived terms

    * (l)

    improvable

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • Capable of being improved; susceptible of improvement; admitting of being made better; capable of cultivation, or of being advanced in good qualities.
  • Capable of being used to advantage; profitable; serviceable; advantageous.

    • Derived terms

    * improvableness * improvably

    References

    * *

    See also

    * improbable