proficuous

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin proficuus (“beneficial”).

Adjective

proficuous (comparative more proficuous, superlative most proficuous)

  1. Useful or profitable.
    • 1672, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions:
      Liquors distilled from them , are experienced very proficuous
    • 1899, Thorstein Veblen, chapter 6, in The Theory of the Leisure Class ‎, New York: Macmillan, →OCLC:
      […] the master for whom [a ritual service] is performed is exalted above the vulgar need of actually proficuous service on the part of his servants.
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