adjective. Bringing in no profit or profits.

adjective. Serving no useful purpose.

Not profitable; bringing no profit; producing no gain, advantage, or improvement; serving no useful or desired end; useless; profitless: as, an unprofitable business; an unprofitable servant.

Unimproved; unlearned.

Synonyms Bootless, unremunerative, fruitless, futile.

adjective. Not making a profit.

adjective. producing little or no profit or gain

"The truth is, Mr. Johnson hated what he called unprofitable chat; and to a gentleman who had disserted some time about the natural history of the mouse -- "I wonder what such a one would have said," cried"

profitable  

dead  idle  lean  marginal  unremunerative  

frivolous  fruitless  hazardous  ineffectual  irksome  

abortive  barren  bootless  bootless  deleterious