adj. promoting benefit or gain; "a profitable meeting to resolve difficulties"

adj. yielding material gain or profit; "profitable speculation on the stock market"

adj. providing profit; "a profitable conversation"

adj. productive of profit; "a profitable enterprise"; "a fruitful meeting"

adj. occurring at a convenient or suitable time; "an opportune time to receive guests"

adj. having succeeded or being marked by a favorable outcome; "a successful architect"; "a successful business venture"

adj. (undefeated)

adj. experiencing triumph

adj. productive or conducive to producing in abundance; "be fruitful and multiply"

adj. lucrative; "a juicy contract"; "a nice fat job"

adj. providing personal satisfaction; "a rewarding career as a paramedic"

adj. marked by qualities giving the power to produce an intended effect; "written propaganda is less efficacious than the habits and prejudices...of the readers"-Aldous Huxley; "the medicine is efficacious in stopping a cough"

adj. sufficiently valuable to justify the investment of time or interest; "a worthwhile book"

adj. yielding a fair profit

adj. producing a sizeable profit; "a remunerative business"

adj. profit oriented; "a commercial book"; "preached a mercantile and militant patriotism"- John Buchan; "a mercenary enterprise"; "a moneymaking business"

adj. widely known and esteemed; "a famous actor"; "a celebrated musician"; "a famed scientist"; "an illustrious judge"; "a notable historian"; "a renowned painter"

adj. producing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect; "an air-cooled motor was more effective than a witch's broomstick for rapid long-distance transportation"-LewisMumford; "effective teaching methods"; "effective steps toward peace"; "made an effective entrance"; "his complaint proved to be effectual in bringing action"; "an efficacious law"

adj. very lively and profitable; "flourishing businesses"; "a palmy time for stockbrokers"; "a prosperous new business"; "doing a roaring trade"; "a thriving tourist center"; "did a thriving business in orchids"

adj. promoting or enhancing well-being; "an arms limitation agreement beneficial to all countries"; "the beneficial effects of a temperate climate"; "the experience was good for her"

adj. manifesting partiality; "a discriminatory tax"; "preferential tariff rates"; "preferential treatment"; "a preferential shop gives priority or advantage to union members in hiring or promoting"

adj. giving an advantage; "a contract advantageous to our country"; "socially advantageous to entertain often"

adj. producing or capable of producing (especially abundantly); "productive farmland"; "his productive years"; "a productive collaboration"

adj. being of use or service; "the girl felt motherly and useful"; "a useful job"; "a useful member of society"

adj. giving pleasure or satisfaction

adj. rewarded or rewardable by a bounty; "a bountied animal pelt"

adj. offering or productive of reward; "rewardful pursuits"

adj. (of plants) bearing or characterized by aments or catkins

adj. (of farmland) capable of being farmed productively

adj. producing or yielding; "an interest-bearing note"; "fruit-bearing trees"

adj. intellectually productive; "a prolific writer"; "a fecund imagination"

adj. reproducing by fission

adj. containing oil; "oil-bearing shale"

adj. very productive; "rich seams of coal"

adj. producing little or no profit or gain; "deposits abandoned by mining companies as unprofitable"

adj. having no beneficial use or incapable of functioning usefully; "a kitchen full of useless gadgets"; "she is useless in an emergency"

adj. (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury; "damaging to career and reputation"; "the reporter's coverage resulted in prejudicial publicity for the defendant"