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
I know the sly cabals of my much-esteemed friends, who seize every opportunity to parade my unproductiveness before my eyes.
From In Paradise A Novel. Vol. I. by Heyse, Paul
The good qualities of the variety are offset by comparative unproductiveness and unevenness in ripening.
From Manual of American Grape-Growing by Hedrick, U. P.
Anything like the cares of responsibility would sooner or later harass him into unproductiveness.
From New Grub Street by Gissing, George
Perhaps he would have followed out the suggestion, but for the intervention of so many years of unproductiveness in the height of his powers, and his subsequent too early death.
From A Study of Hawthorne by Lathrop, George Parsons
