Profitable vs Salutary - What's the difference?
profitable | salutary | Synonyms |
Producing a profit.
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Promoting good health and physical well-being; wholesome; curative.
Profitable is a synonym of salutary.
As adjectives the difference between profitable and salutary
is that profitable is producing a profit while salutary is effecting or designed to effect an improvement; remedial: salutary advice.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)salutary
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- We do it here historically, and I think it's, um, very salutary to know quite a bit about the history of ideas, particularly in philosophy which always suffers from a tendency to follow the latest fashion.