Profitable vs Righteous - What's the difference?
profitable | righteous | Related terms |
Producing a profit.
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moral and virtuous, suggesting sanctimonious
justified morally
(slang, US) awesome
To make righteous; specifically, to justify religiously, to absolve from sin.
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Profitable is a related term of righteous.
As adjectives the difference between profitable and righteous
is that profitable is producing a profit while righteous is free from sin or guilt.As a verb righteous is
to make righteous; specifically, to justify religiously, to absolve from sin.profitable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
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
* lucrativeAntonyms
* unprofitableDerived terms
* (l)righteous
English
Alternative forms
* (l), (l)Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* righteousness * self-righteousVerb
(es)- Thus for the purposes of being ‘righteoused ’, the Law was irrelevant; yet Paul could not bear to see all the Law disappear.