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 Celebrini is arguably the league’s top young player and is quickly becoming one of its most marketable. — Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 14 July 2026 The recognition is another example of Celebrini’s growing profile as a marketable hockey star. — Eric Stephens, New York Times, 14 July 2026 Ongoing expenses, including server costs, residual obligations, and, yes, licensing considerations, made the whole of Hollywood history harder to manage and, by extension, it was seen as less marketable to some. — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 10 July 2026 The shot-blocking, dunk-delivering Wembanyama is eminently marketable, from his tantalizing talent — the third-year pro is the NBA’s unanimous Defensive Player of the Year and third-place MVP finisher — to his composure at the podium. — Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 10 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for marketable

Recent Examples of Synonyms for marketable

Adjective

The $55 billion deal — part-funded with $20 billion borrowed against EA itself — buys Riyadh a profitable business and control of some of the biggest franchises in the world’s biggest entertainment industry.

— Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 5 Aug. 2026
Companies are watching their cash piles dwindle, betting that all these upfront investments on data centers and costly AI systems from the likes of Nvidia will be profitable in the long run.

— Ari Levy,Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of profitable

Adjective

Even if corporate needs are the main reason why creatives are still getting to tell stories set in a galaxy far, far away, the meta conversation found in these tales might help refresh and save Star Wars.

— Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 5 Aug. 2026
Aside from the hundreds of thousands in corporate PAC money and tens of thousands raised through AIPAC, Apollo Global Capital is one of the biggest sources of funding for Larson.

— Readers Speak, Hartford Courant, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of corporate

Adjective

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
Those words probably would poll well and make salable talking points in local town halls.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026

Definition of salable

Adjective

Wolf Ruzicka, global chief commercial officer and CEO North America at Unlimit, broke the answer down this way for me.

— Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
Firefighters also halted a blaze in a non-residential building in the Shevchenkivskyi district, and officials reported damage to commercial and residential property in two additional districts.

— Greg Myre, NPR, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of commercial

Adjective

Estate sales often come with financial obligations and deadlines that ordinary consignments do not, which can make certainty particularly valuable.

— Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 5 Aug. 2026
That network will offer valuable alternatives to the Strait of Hormuz during times of crisis.

— Firmesk Rahim, The Conversation, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of valuable

Adjective

Supplies are also getting more expensive, according to a report from The Century Foundation.

— Ashley Portillo, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2026
The expensive and largely unproven strategy would entail launching a network of satellites that rely on constant energy from the sun to compute data in orbit and beam it down to Earth.

— Bloomberg, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of expensive

Adjective

Profitable and sellable are two different things, and only one of them determines whether a business buyer will actually write you a check.

— Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
What began as a daytime quiz became a durable, repeatable, internationally sellable format precisely because the two halves of the business were aligned on risk, testing and long-term exploitation.

— Remy Blumenfeld, HollywoodReporter, 7 July 2026

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