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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024pro•duc•tive /prəˈdʌktɪv/USA pronunciation adj. - that produces a large amount:a very productive writer.
producing a useful result:a very productive meeting. pro•duc•tive•ly, adv. pro•duc•tive•ness, n. [uncountable]See -duc-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024pro•duc•tive (prə duk′tiv),USA pronunciation adj. - having the power of producing; generative;
creative:a productive effort. - producing readily or abundantly;
fertile:a productive vineyard. - causing;
bringing about (usually fol. by of ):conditions productive of crime and sin. - Business[Econ.]producing or tending to produce goods and services having exchange value.
- Grammar(of derivational affixes or patterns) readily used in forming new words, as the suffix -ness.
- Linguistics, Education(in language learning) of or pertaining to the language skills of speaking and writing (opposed to receptive).
- Medieval Latin productīvus. See product, -ive
- 1605–15
- 2.See corresponding entry in Unabridged fecund. Productive, fertile, fruitful, prolific apply to the generative aspect of something. Productive refers to a generative source of continuing activity:productive soil; a productive influence.Fertile applies to that in which seeds, literal or figurative, take root:fertile soil; a fertile imagination.Fruitful refers to that which has already produced and is capable of further production:fruitful soil, discovery, theory.Prolific means highly productive:a prolific farm, writer.
- 2.See corresponding entry in Unabridged sterile.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: productive /prəˈdʌktɪv/ adj - producing or having the power to produce; fertile
- yielding favourable or effective results
- producing or capable of producing goods and services that have monetary or exchange value
- of or relating to such production: the productive processes of an industry
- (postpositive) followed by of: resulting in: productive of good results
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