Meanings
adjectiveproficuous (comparative more proficuous, superlative most proficuous)
comparative more proficuous · superlative most proficuous
- Useful or profitable.
Liquors distilled from them , are experienced very proficuous
1672, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions1 more example
[…] 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.
1899, Thorstein Veblen, chapter 6, in The Theory of the Leisure Class […] , New York: Macmillan, →OCLC
Origin
- Latinproficuus“beneficial”
- Englishproficuous
Borrowed from Latin proficuus (“beneficial”).
More words from Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Spanish proficuo
- proficuoTranslations
Cite this entry
APA
proficuous. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/proficuous
MLA
“proficuous.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/proficuous. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “proficuous,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/proficuous.
Source: proficuous on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.