productive
adjective
having the power of producing; generative; creative.
unproductiveness
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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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Others suggest that after five years of infirmity, unproductiveness and cramped quarters the thought of having a new play produced might amount to a rebirth.
From Time Magazine Archive
He gave me many good reasons for this course of conduct, dwelling chiefly on the necessary unproductiveness of public works in their early stages, and confidently promising full payment with arrears next time.
From A Man of Mark by Anthony Hope
Anything like the cares of responsibility would sooner or later harass him into unproductiveness.
From New Grub Street by George Gissing
Its end was as strange as its constitution; but here it comes under our notice as a singular exemplification of the unproductiveness, as I may call it, of the Turkish intellect.
From Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity by John Henry Newman
The defects which have kept Brilliant from becoming one of the standard commercial sorts are: marked susceptibility to fungi, variability in size of cluster, unevenness in ripening and unproductiveness.
From Manual of American Grape-Growing by U. P. Hedrick
