productive

Speech parts

1. productive - Adjective

2. productive - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Having the quality or power of producing; yielding or furnishing results; as, productive soil; productive enterprises; productive labor, that which increases the number or amount of products.

Bringing into being; causing to exist; producing; originative; as, an age productive of great men; a spirit productive of heroic achievements.

Producing, or able to produce, in large measure; fertile; profitable.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

rich fat fertile generative original economic successful active effective positive useful practical manufacturing efficient dynamic

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Antonyms

unproductive barren baneful counterproductive counter-productive jaffa

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Related terms

productivity productively productiveness

Phrases with the word

make productive productive activity productive journey productive love productive investment of resources in human beings productive ability

Examples

The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity. Vernor Vinge

Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive. B. F. Skinner

I have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to wind up assaulting the postman or gardener. Ben Stiller

Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status. Greg Bear

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks. Warren Buffett

No day is wholly productive of evil. Latin Proverb

Close letter words and terms

productionwise productisation productise productive ability productive activity productive efficiency