unprofitable

About 1.07 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Not making a profit.

   Being a professional poet is a nice job, albeit unprofitable.

2. noun A person or thing that fails to make a profit.

Similar words

profitless inutile useless unrewarding unremunerative idle dead lean marginal uneconomical

Often followed by

to and for servant servants in as or business

Word family

unprofitableness unprofitablenesses unprofitably