unprofitable
/ʌnˈpɹɑf.ɪ.təbl̩/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.91 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Being a professional poet is a nice job, albeit unprofitable."
- "The undermediators are not required, have nothing properly to do, no peculiar duty to perform; but are an unprofitable or inutile set of beings sitting down and looking at each other through want of other occupation."
- "Soon after breakfast Miss Matilda, having galloped and blundered through a few unprofitable lessons, and vengeably thumped the piano for an hour, in a terrible humour with both me and it, because her mama would not give her a holiday, […]"
- "In some places, however, quartz reefs, payably auriferous while in Silurian rock, have been followed down to subjacent granite, and have there been found to thin out and become unprofitable […]"
- "In addition, over 350 little-used stations were closed, and reductions were made in unprofitable train services."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English profitable English unprofitable From un- + profitable.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ʌnˈpɹɑf.ɪ.təbl̩/
- British English: /ʌnˈpɹɒf.ɪ.təbl̩/