profitableadj.n.adv.

Brit.

/ˈprɒfᵻtəbl/, U.S.

/ˈprɑfədəb(ə)l/,

/ˈprɑftəb(ə)l/

Forms:

α. Middle English profetabil, Middle English profetabile, Middle English profetabul, Middle English profetabull, Middle English proffitable, Middle English proffytabyl, Middle English profitabel, Middle English profitabil, Middle English profitabill, Middle English profitabul, Middle English profitabyll, Middle English profituble, Middle English profytabel, Middle English profytabull, Middle English profytabyl, Middle English profytabyll, Middle English providabille (perhaps transmission error), Middle English–1500s profetable, Middle English–1500s profittable, Middle English–1500s profytable, Middle English– profitable, 1500s profettable, 1500s proffittable, 1500s prouytable; Scottish pre-1700 profetabil, pre-1700 profetable, pre-1700 proffeitabill, pre-1700 proffeittabill, pre-1700 proffetabill, pre-1700 proffetable, pre-1700 proffitabil, pre-1700 proffitabill, pre-1700 proffitable, pre-1700 proffitabyll, pre-1700 proffittabill, pre-1700 profietabill, pre-1700 profitabil, pre-1700 profitabile, pre-1700 profitabill, pre-1700 profitabyl, pre-1700 profitabyll, pre-1700 profittable, pre-1700 profytabill, pre-1700 profytabille, pre-1700 profytable, pre-1700 profytabyll, pre-1700 1700s– profitable.

β. Middle English profethabil, Middle English profithabel, Middle English profyghtabyl, Middle English profyȝtable, 1500s profightable.

γ. Middle English prophetable, Middle English prophetabul, Middle English prophetabull, Middle English prophetabyll, Middle English prophytabyll, Middle English–1500s prophitable, Middle English–1500s prophytable, 1500s prophytabull; Scottish pre-1700 prophetabil, pre-1700 prophetabill, pre-1700 prophetable.

δ. late Middle English prouffitable, late Middle English prouffuitable, late Middle English–1500s prouffytable, late Middle English–1500s proufitable; Scottish pre-1700 prouffitable.

ε. late Middle English profectabell, 1500s profectable, 1500s proffectable.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly a borrowing from French. Etymons: Latin profitabilis; French profetable, profitable.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin profitabilis (1263 in a British source) and its etymon Anglo-Norman profetable, prophitable, purfitable and Anglo-Norman and Middle French profitable (French profitable ) advantageous, useful (c1120 in Old French) < profiter profit v. + -able -able suffix. Compare Italian profittabile (a1292; now archaic), profittevole (c1336).

A. adj.

1. That yields advantage or benefit; useful, valuable. Formerly also: †effective as a remedy (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > advantage > [adjective]

fremefulc1000

i-duȝea1250

hendyc1275

begetela1325

profitablea1325

speedful1340

worth1340

speedyc1380

behoveful1382

fructuousc1386

fruitfulc1386

vailable1390

availantc1420

availingc1420

commodious1420

commodous?1440

available1474

behovablea1475

advantageousc1485

profitly1485

beneficiala1513

advantageable1548

sanative1548

gainful1555

vantageable1570

vantageous?1572

gainy1573

comfortable1576

conducent1578

advantageous1591

bootful1594

availful1598

conducible?1611

commoditous1621

conducing1624

conduceful1635

proficuousa1642

proficaciousa1660

beneficenta1676

conducive1710

benefactory1744

benignant1791

sanatorya1832

beneficiary1836

a1325 Statutes of Realm (2011) vii. 28 For þulke remedie is imaked ant ipurueid a maner of statuz vol necessarie ant profitable to his poeple.

c1330 (?c1300) Speculum Guy (Auch.) (1898) 4 Þat i wole speke..is swiþe profitable.

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 2 Tim. iii. 16 Al scripture of God ynspyrid is profitable to teche.

c1400 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Trin. Cambr. R.3.14) (1960) A. vii. 259 (MED) Þise arn profitable [v.r. prophitable] wordis.

c1400 Prose Versions New Test.: Phil. (Selwyn) (1904) iii. 7 (MED) Þilke þinges þat weren profytabel & wynnynge to me, for Crist ich hafe y-demed þat þei beþ harmful.

a1425 Comm. in H. R. Bramley Rolle's Psalter (1884) 2 (MED) His werkis were ful profetabul to pore and rych.

1528 in T. Wright Three Chapters Lett. Suppression Monasteries (1843) 5 To name and appoynt..suche one as your grace shall thinke moste mete and profightable for the place.

1553 H. Llwyd tr. Pope John XXI Treasury of Healthe (new ed.) sig. Li The roote of Fiue leaued grasse is very profitable agaynst the flux of the belly.

1627 W. Duncomb tr. V. d'Audiguier Tragi-comicall Hist. our Times i. 9 Silence or flight were much profitabler for you.

1665 R. Lovell Παμβοτανολογια in W. Salmon Family Dict. (1710) 98 It is good and profitable against the Stone.

1717 G. Berkeley Jrnls. Trav. Italy 19 Sept. in Wks. (1955) VII. 323 B. della regna..is profitable to the bladder, eases tenesmus & ague.

1756 J. Woolman Jrnl. (1971) ii. 34 My mind was often tender and I learned some profitable lessons.

1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. 290 If we are good, then we are profitable; for all good things are profitable.

1905 E. M. Forster Where Angels fear to Tread vii. 218 There might perhaps be before them a long and profitable friendship.

1962 O. Manning Spoilt City i. iv. 42 He moved away to find more profitable companionship.

1998 C. Mims When we Die (1999) xii. 275 Hair is also a profitable source of many amino-acids, including cysteine and tyrosine.

2. That yields financial profit; lucrative.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > [adjective] > profitable

winning1435

lucrous1511

beneficial1526

lucrative1526

gainful1561

profitful1568

gainsome1579

profiting1590

requiteful1607

pennisome1631

lucriferous1648

opulent1648

emolumental1664

quick1681

well-metalleda1734

pay-rent1742

profitable1758

emolumentary1775

remunerative1813

economical1815

repaying1820

well-paying1832

benefited1837

paying1841

payable1855

money-making1887

economic1899

bankable1927

megadollar1963

money-spinning1973

1419 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. I. 66 (MED) That ȝe comand hym to enforme ȝou..of the estat of this Contre, and..of the governance of ȝoure Officers in this parties whilk arn proffitable for ȝou.

1450 in J. Stevenson Lett. & Papers Illustr. Wars Eng. in France (1861) I. 514 Marchaundisses..as shal be thoughte, most behoveful and prouffuitable.

1512 in J. C. Tingey Rec. City of Norwich (1910) II. 108 The comoditie of byeng and sellyng of Worsteddes and wevyng of the same..have ben moche profightable to peple.

a1550 (c1477) T. Norton Ordinal of Alchemy (Sloane 1873) (1975) 2850 (MED) In hym will be at oon tyme wrogth lx werkis..Therfore profitable it is certeyn.

1652 J. Wadsworth tr. P. de Sandoval Civil Wars Spain 216 Profitable rights, as..Subsidies, Customerships.

1686 H. C. tr. Aristotle Rhetoric I. v. 25 Profitable I call those things that yield a Revenue.

1758 R. Brown Compl. Farmer (1759) 79 Geese are profitable in many ways.

1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. xi. 275 It becomes as profitable to employ the most fertile..lands in raising food for them [sc. cattle] as in raising corn.

1845 J. R. McCulloch Treat. Taxation i. iv. 116 One ship-owner has a ship at sea, making a profitable voyage, while that of another is in port unemployed.

1885 Manch. Examiner 17 Mar. 5/2 The beef-growers find a profitable trade in fatting lean stock brought into the country.

1924 Amer. Econ. Rev. 14 321 Exports at lower than the home price are made profitable through export bounties granted by governments of mercantilistic tendency.

1963 J. F. Harris et al. in B. L. Browning Chem. Wood xi. 578 Lignosulfonates..have found a variety of profitable applications.

1990 Rolling Stone 12 July 106/1 Seriously hip, totally illegal and highly profitable—Jazzie recalls carrying the cash away in large plastic bags.

†B. n.

Benefit; a useful or profitable thing; a valuable property or quality. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > advantage > [noun] > an advantage, benefit, or favourable circumstance > an advantageous or profitable thing

profitable1681

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 153^v A ryuer haþ many profitables [L. vtilitatem] þat ben couenable to þe vse of men.

c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. i. 145 (MED) For most profytable [v.rr. profit, profijt] to þe puple, a plouh þei gonne make.

a1500 Gesta Romanorum (Gloucester) (1971) 765 (MED) Iyf þou chese one of þese in þe wyche is moste profytabull [v.r. profite] & a-vayle, Thow schalt haue my son.

1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία (Guildhall Libr. MS 16/1) sig. a3^v Give serious advise to thers that thou mayest be thine own Auditor, and write profitables for thine own perusall.

1681 R. L'Estrange tr. Cicero Offices (ed. 2) 6 Of Two Profitables whether is the more Profitable?

1699 J. Bellers Ess. about Poor sig. A2 What I have said of Trade, is rather to Anatomize, and look into the Nature of it, than to find out the most Profitables.

†C. adv.

Profitably. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > advantage > [adverb]

wellc1300

fructuouslya1382

profitablya1382

wella1400

commodiously1420

at the best advice1433

fruitfullyc1450

fruituouslyc1450

behovably1512

profitable?c1525

availably1530

beneficially1531

advantageously1562

availfully1603

?c1525 (a1503) Receyt Ladie Kateryne (Coll. Arms M.13) (1990) iv. 72 This conduite prophitabill servys the chambers with watir for ther handes and all othir offices as they nede to resorte.

1589 First Voy. Amer. in R. Hakluyt Principal Navigations II. 728 I have presumed to present vnto you this briefe discourse, by which you may judge how profitable this land is likely to succeede.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	profitable
释义	profitableadj.n.adv. Brit. /ˈprɒfᵻtəbl/, U.S. /ˈprɑfədəb(ə)l/, /ˈprɑftəb(ə)l/ Forms: α. Middle English profetabil, Middle English profetabile, Middle English profetabul, Middle English profetabull, Middle English proffitable, Middle English proffytabyl, Middle English profitabel, Middle English profitabil, Middle English profitabill, Middle English profitabul, Middle English profitabyll, Middle English profituble, Middle English profytabel, Middle English profytabull, Middle English profytabyl, Middle English profytabyll, Middle English providabille (perhaps transmission error), Middle English–1500s profetable, Middle English–1500s profittable, Middle English–1500s profytable, Middle English– profitable, 1500s profettable, 1500s proffittable, 1500s prouytable; Scottish pre-1700 profetabil, pre-1700 profetable, pre-1700 proffeitabill, pre-1700 proffeittabill, pre-1700 proffetabill, pre-1700 proffetable, pre-1700 proffitabil, pre-1700 proffitabill, pre-1700 proffitable, pre-1700 proffitabyll, pre-1700 proffittabill, pre-1700 profietabill, pre-1700 profitabil, pre-1700 profitabile, pre-1700 profitabill, pre-1700 profitabyl, pre-1700 profitabyll, pre-1700 profittable, pre-1700 profytabill, pre-1700 profytabille, pre-1700 profytable, pre-1700 profytabyll, pre-1700 1700s– profitable. β. Middle English profethabil, Middle English profithabel, Middle English profyghtabyl, Middle English profyȝtable, 1500s profightable. γ. Middle English prophetable, Middle English prophetabul, Middle English prophetabull, Middle English prophetabyll, Middle English prophytabyll, Middle English–1500s prophitable, Middle English–1500s prophytable, 1500s prophytabull; Scottish pre-1700 prophetabil, pre-1700 prophetabill, pre-1700 prophetable. δ. late Middle English prouffitable, late Middle English prouffuitable, late Middle English–1500s prouffytable, late Middle English–1500s proufitable; Scottish pre-1700 prouffitable. ε. late Middle English profectabell, 1500s profectable, 1500s proffectable. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly a borrowing from French. Etymons: Latin profitabilis; French profetable, profitable. Etymology: < post-classical Latin profitabilis (1263 in a British source) and its etymon Anglo-Norman profetable, prophitable, purfitable and Anglo-Norman and Middle French profitable (French profitable ) advantageous, useful (c1120 in Old French) < profiter profit v. + -able -able suffix. Compare Italian profittabile (a1292; now archaic), profittevole (c1336). A. adj. 1. That yields advantage or benefit; useful, valuable. Formerly also: †effective as a remedy (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > [adjective] fremefulc1000 i-duȝea1250 hendyc1275 begetela1325 profitablea1325 speedful1340 worth1340 speedyc1380 behoveful1382 fructuousc1386 fruitfulc1386 vailable1390 availantc1420 availingc1420 commodious1420 commodous?1440 available1474 behovablea1475 advantageousc1485 profitly1485 beneficiala1513 advantageable1548 sanative1548 gainful1555 vantageable1570 vantageous?1572 gainy1573 comfortable1576 conducent1578 advantageous1591 bootful1594 availful1598 conducible?1611 commoditous1621 conducing1624 conduceful1635 proficuousa1642 proficaciousa1660 beneficenta1676 conducive1710 benefactory1744 benignant1791 sanatorya1832 beneficiary1836 a1325 Statutes of Realm (2011) vii. 28 For þulke remedie is imaked ant ipurueid a maner of statuz vol necessarie ant profitable to his poeple. c1330 (?c1300) Speculum Guy (Auch.) (1898) 4 Þat i wole speke..is swiþe profitable. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 2 Tim. iii. 16 Al scripture of God ynspyrid is profitable to teche. c1400 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Trin. Cambr. R.3.14) (1960) A. vii. 259 (MED) Þise arn profitable [v.r. prophitable] wordis. c1400 Prose Versions New Test.: Phil. (Selwyn) (1904) iii. 7 (MED) Þilke þinges þat weren profytabel & wynnynge to me, for Crist ich hafe y-demed þat þei beþ harmful. a1425 Comm. in H. R. Bramley Rolle's Psalter (1884) 2 (MED) His werkis were ful profetabul to pore and rych. 1528 in T. Wright Three Chapters Lett. Suppression Monasteries (1843) 5 To name and appoynt..suche one as your grace shall thinke moste mete and profightable for the place. 1553 H. Llwyd tr. Pope John XXI Treasury of Healthe (new ed.) sig. Li The roote of Fiue leaued grasse is very profitable agaynst the flux of the belly. 1627 W. Duncomb tr. V. d'Audiguier Tragi-comicall Hist. our Times i. 9 Silence or flight were much profitabler for you. 1665 R. Lovell Παμβοτανολογια in W. Salmon Family Dict. (1710) 98 It is good and profitable against the Stone. 1717 G. Berkeley Jrnls. Trav. Italy 19 Sept. in Wks. (1955) VII. 323 B. della regna..is profitable to the bladder, eases tenesmus & ague. 1756 J. Woolman Jrnl. (1971) ii. 34 My mind was often tender and I learned some profitable lessons. 1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. 290 If we are good, then we are profitable; for all good things are profitable. 1905 E. M. Forster Where Angels fear to Tread vii. 218 There might perhaps be before them a long and profitable friendship. 1962 O. Manning Spoilt City i. iv. 42 He moved away to find more profitable companionship. 1998 C. Mims When we Die (1999) xii. 275 Hair is also a profitable source of many amino-acids, including cysteine and tyrosine. 2. That yields financial profit; lucrative. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > [adjective] > profitable winning1435 lucrous1511 beneficial1526 lucrative1526 gainful1561 profitful1568 gainsome1579 profiting1590 requiteful1607 pennisome1631 lucriferous1648 opulent1648 emolumental1664 quick1681 well-metalleda1734 pay-rent1742 profitable1758 emolumentary1775 remunerative1813 economical1815 repaying1820 well-paying1832 benefited1837 paying1841 payable1855 money-making1887 economic1899 bankable1927 megadollar1963 money-spinning1973 1419 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. I. 66 (MED) That ȝe comand hym to enforme ȝou..of the estat of this Contre, and..of the governance of ȝoure Officers in this parties whilk arn proffitable for ȝou. 1450 in J. Stevenson Lett. & Papers Illustr. Wars Eng. in France (1861) I. 514 Marchaundisses..as shal be thoughte, most behoveful and prouffuitable. 1512 in J. C. Tingey Rec. City of Norwich (1910) II. 108 The comoditie of byeng and sellyng of Worsteddes and wevyng of the same..have ben moche profightable to peple. a1550 (c1477) T. Norton Ordinal of Alchemy (Sloane 1873) (1975) 2850 (MED) In hym will be at oon tyme wrogth lx werkis..Therfore profitable it is certeyn. 1652 J. Wadsworth tr. P. de Sandoval Civil Wars Spain 216 Profitable rights, as..Subsidies, Customerships. 1686 H. C. tr. Aristotle Rhetoric I. v. 25 Profitable I call those things that yield a Revenue. 1758 R. Brown Compl. Farmer (1759) 79 Geese are profitable in many ways. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. xi. 275 It becomes as profitable to employ the most fertile..lands in raising food for them [sc. cattle] as in raising corn. View more context for this quotation 1845 J. R. McCulloch Treat. Taxation i. iv. 116 One ship-owner has a ship at sea, making a profitable voyage, while that of another is in port unemployed. 1885 Manch. Examiner 17 Mar. 5/2 The beef-growers find a profitable trade in fatting lean stock brought into the country. 1924 Amer. Econ. Rev. 14 321 Exports at lower than the home price are made profitable through export bounties granted by governments of mercantilistic tendency. 1963 J. F. Harris et al. in B. L. Browning Chem. Wood xi. 578 Lignosulfonates..have found a variety of profitable applications. 1990 Rolling Stone 12 July 106/1 Seriously hip, totally illegal and highly profitable—Jazzie recalls carrying the cash away in large plastic bags. †B. n. Benefit; a useful or profitable thing; a valuable property or quality. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > [noun] > an advantage, benefit, or favourable circumstance > an advantageous or profitable thing profitable1681 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 153^v A ryuer haþ many profitables [L. vtilitatem] þat ben couenable to þe vse of men. c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. i. 145 (MED) For most profytable [v.rr. profit, profijt] to þe puple, a plouh þei gonne make. a1500 Gesta Romanorum (Gloucester) (1971) 765 (MED) Iyf þou chese one of þese in þe wyche is moste profytabull [v.r. profite] & a-vayle, Thow schalt haue my son. 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία (Guildhall Libr. MS 16/1) sig. a3^v Give serious advise to thers that thou mayest be thine own Auditor, and write profitables for thine own perusall. 1681 R. L'Estrange tr. Cicero Offices (ed. 2) 6 Of Two Profitables whether is the more Profitable? 1699 J. Bellers Ess. about Poor sig. A2 What I have said of Trade, is rather to Anatomize, and look into the Nature of it, than to find out the most Profitables. †C. adv. Profitably. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > [adverb] wellc1300 fructuouslya1382 profitablya1382 wella1400 commodiously1420 at the best advice1433 fruitfullyc1450 fruituouslyc1450 behovably1512 profitable?c1525 availably1530 beneficially1531 advantageously1562 availfully1603 ?c1525 (a1503) Receyt Ladie Kateryne (Coll. Arms M.13) (1990) iv. 72 This conduite prophitabill servys the chambers with watir for ther handes and all othir offices as they nede to resorte. 1589 First Voy. Amer. in R. Hakluyt Principal Navigations II. 728 I have presumed to present vnto you this briefe discourse, by which you may judge how profitable this land is likely to succeede. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.adv.a1325
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