PROFITLESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does profitless mean? 

• PROFITLESS (adjective)
  The adjective PROFITLESS has 1 sense:

1. without profit or reward

  Familiarity information: PROFITLESS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROFITLESS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Without profit or reward

Context example:

How weary, flat, stale, and unprofitable / Seem to me all the uses of this world

Similar:

unrewarding (not rewarding; not providing personal satisfaction)

 Context examples 

I have learned it by looking from my own chamber window and marking these poor monks of the priory, their weary life, their profitless round.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Behind him lay the narrow cell, clay-floored and damp, comfortless, profitless and sordid.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The whole vast plain of Gascony and of Languedoc is an arid and profitless expanse in winter save where the swift-flowing Adour and her snow-fed tributaries, the Louts, the Oloron and the Pau, run down to the sea of Biscay.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)