productive
adjective
having the power of producing; generative; creative.
unproductively
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a word derived from
productive.
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a word derived from
unproductive.
unproductiveadjective(often foll by of) not productive of (anything)
Example Sentences
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Seattle Rep’s production of “I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter” features Isaac Gómez’s stage version of Erika L. Sánchez’s young-adult novel, an adaptation that can feel unproductively beholden to the incident-packed novelistic structure.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 24, 2023
Washington is a likable actor and easy on the eyes, but the character is unproductively one-dimensional and so is the performance, which remains reactive and opaque.
From New York Times ● Aug. 12, 2021
She told me that like most movements, a lot of time in recovery advocacy is spent, unproductively, fighting one another.
From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2017
It’s a broad brush, one that unfairly and unproductively stigmatizes people who have served their time and peacefully waited five additional years as lifetime “defendants.”
From Washington Times ● Mar. 1, 2017
He endeavored to trap and nourish the impression in order to predict, and perhaps even control, what incident would occur next, but the afflatus melted away unproductively, as he had known beforehand it would.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
