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UNPROFITABLENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unprofitableness mean? 

UNPROFITABLENESS (noun)
  The noun UNPROFITABLENESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of affording no gain or no benefit or no profitplay

  Familiarity information: UNPROFITABLENESS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


UNPROFITABLENESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of affording no gain or no benefit or no profit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

unprofitability; unprofitableness

Hypernyms ("unprofitableness" is a kind of...):

disadvantage (the quality of having an inferior or less favorable position)

Antonym:

profitableness (the quality of affording gain or benefit or profit)

Derivation:

unprofitable (producing little or no profit or gain)


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