PROFITABLE
Prof"it*a*ble, a. Etym: [F. profitable.]
Defn: Yielding or bringing profit or gain; gainful; lucrative; useful; helpful; advantageous; beneficial; as, a profitable trade; profitable business; a profitable study or profession. What was so profitable to the empire became fatal to the emperor. Arbuthnot. — Prof"it*a*ble*ness, n. — Prof"it*a*bly, adv.
PROFITING
Prof"it*ing, n.
Defn: Gain; advantage; profit.
That thy profiting may appear to all. 1 Tim. iv. 15.
PROFITLESS
Prof"it*less, a.
Defn: Without profit; unprofitable. Shak.
PROFLIGACY
Prof"li*ga*cy, n. Etym: [See Profligate, a.]
Defn: The quality of state of being profligate; a profligate or very vicious course of life; a state of being abandoned in moral principle and in vice; dissoluteness.
PROFLIGATE Prof"li*gate, a. Etym: [L. profligatus, p. p. of profligare to strike or dash to the ground, to destroy; pro before + a word akin to fligere to strike. See Afflict.]
1. Overthrown; beaten; conquered. [Obs.] The foe is profligate, and run. Hudibras.