MARKETABLE Synonyms: 37 Similar and Opposite Words

marketable

adjective

ˈmär-kə-tə-bəl

Definition of marketable

as in profitable

fit to be offered for sale realized that the birdhouses he enjoyed making were marketable and began selling them at craft fairs

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as in corporate

fit or likely to be sold especially on a large scale trying to turn their invention into a marketable product

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Recent Examples of marketable Too often, the pressure is not to go further, but to remain legible, acceptable, and marketable. — Alessia Glaviano, Vogue, 4 Sep. 2026 Building the bridge makes the land more marketable to developers, and selling that land would bring a big paycheck for the RDC as well as jobs and tax revenue to the city. — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2026 The labs are concentrating on making models better at marketable skills, like legal work and accounting. — Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 27 Aug. 2026 As homesteading, cottagecore and tradwife content converge online, the overlap has made the category more marketable. — Tatiana Sataua, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for marketable

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Adjective

Though Netflix is profitable, analysts say the company hasn’t produced enough hits and are skeptical of its plans to grow its subscriber base.

— Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026
The maiden sale proves that cleaner copper is a profitable, commercially viable reality.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of profitable

Adjective

Caring for a Christmas tree farm means growing trees, maintaining a saleable crop, and selling Christmas trees to the public.

— Emily M. Olson, Hartford Courant, 5 Aug. 2026
Her daughter, Rose Lane—a 43-year-old journalist with writer’s block who’d already mined and sold everything salable in her own life—pushed for drama and sensationalism.

— Rosemary Counter, Vanity Fair, 6 July 2026

Definition of salable

Adjective

Sullivan touted his Bycatch Reduction Act, a bill intended to reduce excess fish caught by large commercial trawlers.

— Matthew Choi The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2026
Over the course of 10 years, Vincent created more than 800 paintings and 700 drawings, desperately hoping for financial independence and commercial success.

— Joan Martelli, Time, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of commercial

Adjective

The channel needed to retain its biggest names to keep the channel valuable to cable and satellite TV providers who pay to carry it.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026
The bull case for the world’s most valuable company and the bull case for the build-out are now essentially the same case, and Morgan Stanley’s North America Insight, led by Nicholas Lentini, makes both.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of valuable

Adjective

His proficiency, buoyed by his expensive taste and skill in daisy-chaining images together, got his foot in the door of the indie-rap revitalization.

— Matthew Ritchie, Pitchfork, 15 Oct. 2026
Without more batteries, Illinois will be even more reliant on dirty, expensive electricity imports from other states and more likely to delay the natural gas power plant closures it’s planned for years to clean the air.

— John Lippert, Chicago Tribune, 14 Oct. 2026

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