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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
unprofitable
adjective
1: producing little or no profit or gain; "deposits abandoned by mining companies as unprofitable" [ant: {profitable}]
2: not worth using [syn: {inutile}]
3: without profit or reward; "let us have no part in profitless quarrels"- D.D.Eisenhower; "How weary, flat, stale, and unprofitable / Seem to me all the uses of this world"- Shakespeare [syn: {profitless}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
32 Moby Thesaurus words for "unprofitable": abortive, barren, bootless, deleterious, detrimental, disadvantageous, disserviceable, fruitless, futile, gainless, harmful, ineffective, inefficient, injurious, losing, nonremunerative, otiose, pointless, prejudicial, profitless, purposeless, rewardless, sterile, unadvantageous, unavailing, unfavorable, unfruitful, unproductive, unremunerative, unrewarding, useless, worthless
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