English Explanatory Dictionary

productive

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Capable of producing something, especially in abundance; fertile.
  2. Yielding good or useful results; constructive.
  3. Of, or relating to the creation of goods or services.
  4. Consistently applicable to any of an open set of words.
  5. Of a cough, producing mucus or sputum from the respiratory tract.
  6. Of inflammation, producing new tissue.
  7. A type of set of natural numbers, related to mathematical logic; a set S is productive if there exists a total recursive function f such that ∀x∈ℕ,~~W_x⊆S⇒f(x)∈A⧵W_x, where W_x is a recursive function whose Gödel number is x.

Pronunciation

/pɹəˈdʌk.tɪv/ /pɹəˈdʌk.təv/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-productive.wav

Word forms

productive more productive most productive

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *pér Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *pró Proto-Indo-European *pro- Proto-Italic *pro- Late Latin prō- Proto-Indo-European *dewk- Proto-Indo-European *déwkti Proto-Italic *doukō Late Latin dūcō Late Latin prōdūcō Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Late Latin -īvus Late Latin prōductīvusbor. English productive Borrowed from Late Latin productivus, equivalent to product + -ive.

Synonyms

productive prolific pregnant batful fertile fruitful thriving yielding yieldly voluminous

Antonyms

baneful barren counterproductive counter-productive destructive nonproductive non-productive ruinous unproductive fruitless sterile

Related words

productively productiveness productivity abundant

Derived words

bioproductive contraproductive hyperproductive hypoproductive improductive osteoproductive overproductive preproductive productive efficiency productive forces productivism productivist productivize semiproductive superproductive underproductive
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