productiveadjective
uk/prəˈdʌk.tɪv/us/prəˈdʌk.tɪv/B2 resulting in or providing a large amount or supply of something:
In order to turn the deserts into fertile and productive land, engineers built an 800-mile canal.
He had an amazingly productive five years in which he managed to write four novels.
Opposite
unproductive
B2 having positive results:
We had a very productive meeting - I felt we solved lots of problems.
Theirs was a very productive partnership.
specialized education , language relating to the ability to produce language, rather than just understand it:
The English-speaking children's productive vocabularies ranged from 2 to 31 words.
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receptive
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- The interview would have been more productive if the questions had been framed more precisely.
- Perhaps her most productive period was her five-year stint as a foreign correspondent in New York.
- Team work at its best results in a synergy that can be very productive.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Creating and producing
- bear fruit idiom
- bring
- bring sth out
- churn sth out
- cobble
- craft
- mass-produce
- on the go idiom
- overproduce
- patch
- patch sth together
- phase
- pump
- raise
- rush
- turn sth out
- uncreative
- unleash
- unproductive
- wrought
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Useful or advantageous
productively
adverb uk/prəˈdʌk.tɪv.li/us/prəˈdʌk.tɪv.li/
Their working system is based on the belief that people work more productively (= produce better results) in a team.