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productive
[pruh-duhk-tiv]
adjective
having the power of producing; generative; creative.
a productive effort.
producing readily or abundantly; fertile.
a productive vineyard.
Synonyms: ,Antonyms: ,causing; bringing about (usually followed byof ).
conditions productive of crime and sin.
Economics.producing or tending to produce goods and services having exchange value.
Grammar.(of derivational affixes or patterns) readily used in forming new words, as the suffix -ness.
(in language learning) of or relating to the language skills of speaking and writing (receptive ).
productive
/ əˈʌɪ /
adjective
producing or having the power to produce; fertile
yielding favourable or effective results
economics
producing or capable of producing goods and services that have monetary or exchange value
productive assets
of or relating to such production
the productive processes of an industry
resulting in
productive of good results
denoting an affix or combining form used to produce new words
Other 51Թ Forms
- productively adverb
- productiveness noun
- productivity noun
- antiproductive adjective
- antiproductively adverb
- semiproductive adjective
- semiproductively adverb
- unproductive adjective
- unproductively adverb
- unproductiveness noun
- ˈܳپ adverb
- ˈܳپԱ noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of productive1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
“It was not a productive day. It was a day of destruction,” Hochman said.
Mr Chandrashekhar says that many farms in those regions are becoming less productive.
“They played a lot of good football, a lot of meaningful football, a lot of productive football. … I think it’s been fun for both those guys.”
"Nevertheless," he continued, "respectful dissent in science is productive. We all want the NIH to succeed."
The theory is that the more productive people you have in an economy, the more it grows, said Tarek Hassan, a professor of economics at Boston University.
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