Word Meanings - PROFICUOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Profitable; advantageous; useful. Harvey.

Related words: (words related to PROFICUOUS)

• PROFITABLE
  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.
• ADVANTAGEOUSNESS
  Profitableness.
• HARVEY PROCESS
  A process of hardening the face of steel, as armor plates, invented by Hayward A. Harvey of New Jersey, consisting in the additional carburizing of the face of a piece of low carbon steel by subjecting it to the action of carbon under long-continued
• USEFUL
  Full of use, advantage, or profit; producing, or having power to produce, good; serviceable for any end or object; helpful toward advancing any purpose; beneficial; profitable; advantageous; as, vessels and instruments useful in a family; books
• ADVANTAGEOUS
  Being of advantage; conferring advantage; gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial; as, an advantageous position; trade is advantageous to a nation. Advabtageous comparison with any other country. Prescott. You see . . . of what use a good reputation
• ADVANTAGEOUSLY
  Profitably; with advantage.
• USEFULLY
  In a useful manner.
• USEFULNESS
  The quality or state of being useful; utility; serviceableness; advantage. Addison. Syn. -- Utility; value; profit. See Utility.
• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• IMPROFITABLE
  Unprofitable.
• ABUSEFUL
  Full of abuse; abusive. "Abuseful names." Bp. Barlow.
• DISADVANTAGEOUS
  Attended with disadvantage; unfavorable to success or prosperity; inconvenient; prejudicial; -- opposed to advantageous; as, the situation of an army is disadvantageous for attack or defense. Even in the disadvantageous position in which he had
• MUSEFUL
  Meditative; thoughtfully silent. "Museful mopings." Dryden. -- Muse"ful*ly, adv.
• DISPROFITABLE
  Unprofitable.