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Pecuniarily embarrassed through owning much unprofitable land. [Colloq.]

A vain, unprofitable discourse or inquiry. [R.]

Any unprofitable science. [Obs.]

To turn out (profitably or unprofitably); to result; to develop; as, the investigation, or the speculation, panned out poorly. [Slang, U. S.]

To plan; to scheme; to devise; to contrive secretly. "Plotting an unprofitable crime." Dryden. "Plotting now the fall of others." Milton

his philosophy holds all inquiry into causes, both efficient and final, to be useless and unprofitable.

Without profit; unprofitable. Shak.

e and curious information which he had picked up during many months of desultory, but not unprofitable, study. Macaulay. Quantity of estate (Law), its time of continuance, or degree of interest, as in fee, for life, or for years. Wharton (Law Dict. ) -- Quantity of matter, in a body, its mass, as determined by its weig…

Barren; unprofitable. See Rent seck, under Rent.

e; common. Swift. Wit itself, if stale is less pleasing. Grew. How weary, stale flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world! Shak. Stale affidavit (Law), an affidavit held above a year. Craig. -- Stale demand (Law), a claim or demand which has not been pressed or demanded for a long time.…

Unsuitable; unprofitable. [Obs.] Hammond.

om; manner; habit. Let later age that noble use envy. Spenser. How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, Seem to me all the uses of this world! Shak.

le; producing no good end; answering no valuable purpose; not advancing the end proposed; unprofitable; ineffectual; as, a useless garment; useless pity. Not to sit idle with so great a gift Useless, and thence ridiculous. Milton.

Fig.: Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.