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Profitable vs Respectable - What's the difference?

profitable | respectable | Related terms |

Profitable is a related term of respectable.


As adjectives the difference between profitable and respectable

is that profitable is producing a profit while respectable is deserving respect.

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)

    respectable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Deserving respect.
  • :
  • *
  • *:In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass. In this way all respectable burgesses, down to fifty years ago, spent their evenings.
  • Decent; satisfactory.
  • :
  • Antonyms

    * disrespectable

    Derived terms

    * respectably