Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Profitable; advantageous; useful.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Profitable; advantageous; useful.
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- adjective
Useful orprofitable .
Etymologies
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Latin proficuus.
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Examples
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There will also be a decision made when is the most proficuous time to announce it?
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And with a good reason, for the fact of its being perfunctory goes to say pointedly that the master for whom it is performed is exalted above the vulgar need of actually proficuous service on the part of his servants.
The theory of the leisure class; an economic study of institutions 1899
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And with a good reason, for the fact of its being perfunctory goes to say pointedly that the master for whom it is performed is exalted above the vulgar need of actually proficuous service on the part of his servants.
Theory of the Leisure Class Thorstein Veblen 1893
pavonine commented on the word proficuous
Profitable; advantageous; useful.
June 8, 2008