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单词 counter-productive
释义

counter-productive

also counterproductive
adjective [usually verb-link ADJECTIVE]
Something that is counter-productive achieves the opposite result from the one that you want to achieve.
In practice, however, such an attitude is counter-productive.
It is counterproductive to address an interviewee in patronizing tones.

Examples of 'counter-productive' in a sentence
counter-productive

It may also prove counter-productive in practical terms.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
What surprised many is how assiduously he stuck to the idea once it had become politically counter-productive.
Simon Ball THE GUARDSMEN (2004)
But hatred is more often counter-productive than not.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The second is that drone strikes fail to reduce armed militancy and may be counter-productive by causing radicalisation.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Japanese terror tactics thus proved counter-productive.
Grenville, J. A. S. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century (1994)
But the measure may prove counter-productive.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
This is a wholly counter-productive policy.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
It is an entirely counter-productive process.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
The risk with higher transaction costs is that you actually lower the tax take and reduce social mobility to the point it becomes counter-productive.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Thirdly, the scheme may prove counter-productive.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)

In other languages
counter-productive

British English: counter-productive ADJECTIVE
Something that is counter-productive achieves the opposite result from the one that you want to achieve.
In practice, such an attitude is counter-productive.
  • American English: counterproductive
  • Brazilian Portuguese: contraproducente
  • Chinese: 遭致反作用
  • European Spanish: contraproducente
  • French: contre-productif
  • German: kontraproduktiv
  • Italian: controproducente
  • Japanese: 逆効果の
  • Korean: 역효과를 낳는
  • European Portuguese: contraproducente
  • Latin American Spanish: contraproducente
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