Profitable vs Serviceable - What's the difference?
profitable | serviceable | Synonyms |
Producing a profit.
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Repairable instead of disposable.
In condition for use.
*1719- , (w), (Robinson Crusoe)
*:I employed myself in making, as well as I could, a great many baskets, both to carry earth or to carry or lay up anything, as I had occasion; and though I did not finish them very handsomely, yet I made them sufficiently serviceable for my purpose...
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*:There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
Profitable is a synonym of serviceable.
As adjectives the difference between profitable and serviceable
is that profitable is producing a profit while serviceable is easy to service.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"