uneconomicEnglishOxford English Thesaurusuneconomic adjective it was uneconomic for landlords to maintain rent-controlled housing: unprofitable, uncommercial, unremunerative, non-viable; loss-making, non-paying, non-profit-making, worthless; wasteful, inefficient, unfrugal, improvident, squandering. ▷antonyms economic, profitable.uneconomic Oxford Dictionary of English