Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Producing or capable of producing.
- adj. Producing abundantly; fertile. See Synonyms at fertile.
- adj. Yielding favorable or useful results; constructive.
- adj. Economics Of or involved in the creation of goods and services to produce wealth or value.
- adj. Effective in achieving specified results; originative: policies productive of much harm.
- adj. Medicine Producing mucus or sputum: a productive cough.
- adj. Medicine Forming new tissue: a productive inflammation.
- adj. Linguistics Of or relating to the linguistic skills of speaking and writing.
- adj. Linguistics Of or relating to a linguistic element or rule that can be used to form further examples of a particular feature or pattern. The English past tense suffix -ed is productive since it continues to be added to new verbs to form the past tense.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Serving to produce; having the power of producing: as, an age productive of great men.
- Fertile; producing abundant crops: as, a productive soil.
- In political economics, causing or tending to cause an increase in the quantity or quality of things of value; causing commodities to possess exchangeable value: as, productive labor.
Wiktionary
- adj. Capable of producing something, especially in abundance; fertile
- adj. yielding good or useful results; constructive
- adj. Of, or relating to the creation of goods or services
- adj. linguistics, of an affix or word construction rule consistently applicable to any of an open set of words
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having the quality or power of producing; yielding or furnishing results
- adj. Bringing into being; causing to exist; producing; originative.
- adj. Producing, or able to produce, in large measure; fertile; profitable.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. yielding positive results
- adj. producing or capable of producing (especially abundantly)
- adj. having the ability to produce or originate
- adj. marked by great fruitfulness
Examples
“But I think an educated public realizing that they can effectively "vote" with their dollars for which businesses/authors remain productive is probably a good thing.”
“I think the word productive is highly deceptive and mis-leading.”
Citing 'productive' G8, Obama heads to Africa with a message
“Martin O'Malley on Tuesday used the first in a series of planed bill-signing ceremonies to tout what he characterized as a productive 90-day legislative session, despite tough budgetary times.”
The Washington Post: At bill signing ceremony, O'Malley claims 'progress' in tough times
“She said she believed her counterparts "understand the gravity of this situation", citing what she called productive and detailed conversations.”
“She worked half days in the kitchen (which she defined as productive labor) and half days on her writing, Hebrew (which she never mastered), and knitting.”
“And what I define as productive inter-faith dialogue is not an attempt to negotiate a position that nobody recognizes as their own, but to understand where each person's coming from, to be open to the possibility that you might emerge from the dialogue knowing more about God than when you started.”
What Difference Does it Make? - The Gospel in Contemporary Culture Questions & Answers Session
“Creeping round in the dead of night outing "pathetic little men" like me is what you call productive is it?”
“Maybe we'll get a little chance to beat you up later, especially if your little talk with the boss ain't what they call productive of results.”
“Because the ability of mankind, to develop technologies, what we call productive technologies, agriculture and industry, depends upon the development of infrastructure, as properly defined.”
“This is what I call productive outing because we did not focus only on boring politics, mundane issues that mainstream media doesn't care and other big stuffs, we also zoom our cameras into laksa soup, Hokkien mee soup, loh bak boiling oil, blended nutmeg juice, tempek and etc.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘productive’.
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WF - Word Formation Words
Classes of words and types of word formation
sniglet, protologism, portmanteau word, blend, telescope-word, frankenword, double-entendre, compound, derivative, palindrome, spoonerism, malapropism and 152 more...
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Types of Reasoning
types of "reasoning"
deductive, reductive, seductive, abductive, photoconductive, reproductive, conductive, obstructive, introductive, productive, reconstructive, subductive and 4 more...
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Deadlinitis
How do approaching (or missed) deadlines make you feel?
entrained, untraveling, wordasphyxia, inspired, anxious, guilty, concentrated, panic, blackout, focused, insomnia, hunger and 17 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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Keeping Secrets
Words of 10 letters, all different, can be used for encrypting, pretty securely, such things as PINs and passwords. The fly in the ointment, for me, in keeping track of them is I've got to write '...
lumberjack, birthplace, whiskeybar, vanquished, metaphysic, precaution, quizmaster, dumbwaiter, thumbscrew, blacksmith, wholegrain, wanderlust and 105 more...
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classic695's Words
delighted, elated, energetic, excited, enthusiastic, elevated, happy, contented, fine, pleased, satisfied, compassionate and 168 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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Prosie: Obama's Inaugural Address
In keeping with my other Prosies (like this one). There were a number of phrases as well as words in this speech that I found particularly compelling.
My fellow citizens: I stand here ...we did not turn b..., when we were tested, what storms may come, icy currents, virtue, hope, alarmed, depth of winter, revolution, snow, enemy, abandoned and 257 more...
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hypomania, hypomanic, complementary, deem, problematic, volatile, mercurial, unaccompanied, counterpart, irritability, hyperthymia, violent and 130 more...
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oneasterism's words
Words that I like, that I don't use often enough, that are new to me, that friends and family have taught me, and so on.
lugubrious, reticent, eschelon, missive, penchant, copious, conspicuous, tranquil, redolent, asinine, inane, dilatory and 625 more...
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