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Well-behaved vs Profitable - What's the difference?

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Well-behaved is a related term of profitable.


As adjectives the difference between well-behaved and profitable

is that well-behaved is (of a person or animal) having good manners and acting properly; conforming to standards of good behaviour; while profitable is producing a profit.

well-behaved

Adjective

  • (of a person or animal) Having good manners and acting properly; conforming to standards of good behaviour;
  • :The boy is well behaved and is seldom naughty.
  • (mathematics) Having intuitive, easy to handle properties. Especially:
  • (mathematics) (of a function ) Having a finite derivative (of all orders) at all points, and having no discontinuities
  • Synonyms

    * well-mannered * seemly

    Antonyms

    * ill behaved * (mathematics) pathological

    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)