profitless



abortive, barren, bootless, fruitless, futile, hollow, otiose, sterile, thankless, unproductive, unprofitable, unrewarding, vain ,

   originative - aetiological, behind the scenes, causal, causative, conceptive, conceptual, constitutive, constructive, creative, decisive, determinative, effectual, fecund, fertile, formative,

   calumniate - abuse, black, blaspheme, decry, defame, denigrate, discredit, libel, malign, revile, scandal, scandalize, shame, slander, slur,

   kid out of - admonish, caution, daunt, dissuade, expostulate, intimidate, remonstrate, warn ,

   fog bell - Klaxon, Mayday, Roman candle, SOS, alarm, alert, all clear, beacon, bell, blinker, buoy, buzzer, fire bell, flare, foghorn,

   inverted cross - ankh, chi, criss-cross, cross, crossbones, crucifix, crux, dagger, rood, swastika ,

   out-bowed - arched, convex, gibbous, humped, rotund ,

   vulnerary - balsam, demulcent, emollient, unction, unguent ,

   whet - accelerate, aggravate, agitate, animate, antipasto, aperitif, appetizer, arouse, awaken, bait, barb, beef up, bestir, blow the coals, blow up,

   unnerved - aghast, anaemic, appalled, ashen, astounded, awed, awestruck, blanched, bloodless, castrated, chicken, cowardly, cowed, crushed, dashed,

   implausibility - bare possibility, credibility gap, doubtfulness, dubiousness, faint likelihood, improbability, inconceivability, incredibility, little expectation, poor possibility, poor prospect, questionableness, small chance, unlikelihood, unreliability ,