productive
Americanadjective
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having the power of producing; generative; creative.
a productive effort.
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producing readily or abundantly; fertile.
a productive vineyard.
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causing; bringing about (usually followed byof ).
conditions productive of crime and sin.
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Economics. producing or tending to produce goods and services having exchange value.
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Grammar. (of derivational affixes or patterns) readily used in forming new words, as the suffix -ness.
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(in language learning) of or relating to the language skills of speaking and writing (receptive ).
adjective
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producing or having the power to produce; fertile
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yielding favourable or effective results
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economics
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producing or capable of producing goods and services that have monetary or exchange value
productive assets
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of or relating to such production
the productive processes of an industry
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resulting in
productive of good results
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denoting an affix or combining form used to produce new words
Related Words
Productive, fertile, fruitful, prolific apply to the generative aspect of something. Productive refers to a generative source of continuing activity: productive soil; a productive influence. Fertile applies to that in which seeds, literal or figurative, take root: fertile soil; a fertile imagination. Fruitful refers to that which has already produced and is capable of further production: fruitful soil, discovery, theory. Prolific means highly productive: a prolific farm, writer.
Other Word Forms
- antiproductive adjective
- antiproductively adverb
- productively adverb
- productiveness noun
- productivity noun
- semiproductive adjective
- semiproductively adverb
- unproductive adjective
- unproductively adverb
- unproductiveness noun
Etymology
Origin of productive
First recorded in 1605–15; from the Medieval Latin word productīvus; product, -ive
Example Sentences
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In one of the most productive first years of any Congress in our lifetimes, we’ve gone to work answering that question.
His most productive period straddled the era of the Shah and then the Islamic theocratic forces that deposed him - with both systems ever ready to sniff out hidden messages that could be interpreted as dissent.
From BBC
Between the 1820s and early 20th century, the mine was among the most productive gold operations in the U.S.
Prescott has been pretty consistent though, and productive, as he was in Washington with two touchdowns including the longest ever in a Christmas Day game - an 86-yard bomb to speedster KaVontae Turpin.
From BBC
But, he added, visits could also serve as rewards for "productive units" of workers.
From Barron's
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