Adjacent Words

Productive definitions

	Tweet

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PRODUC'TIVE, a.
1. Having the power of producing; as, productive labor is that which increases the number or amount of products; opposed to unproductive labor. The labor of the farmer and mechanic is productive; the labor of officers and professional men is unproductive to the state. A tree which bears fruit, and the land which bears grass or grain, is productive.
2. Fertile; producing good crops. We often denote by this word that land or plants yield large products.
3. Producing; bringing into being; causing to exist; efficient; as an age productive of great men; a spirit productive of heroic achievements.
This is turning nobility into a principle of virtue,and making it productive of merit.
And kindle with thy own productive fire.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: producing or capable of producing (especially abundantly); "productive farmland"; "his productive years"; "a productive collaboration" [ant: unproductive]
2: having the ability to produce or originate; "generative power"; "generative forces" [syn: generative, productive] [ant: consumptive]
3: yielding positive results
4: marked by great fruitfulness; "fertile farmland"; "a fat land"; "a productive vineyard"; "rich soil" [syn: fat, fertile, productive, rich]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1612 1. having the quality or power of producing especially in abundance <productive fishing waters> 2. effective in bringing about <investigating committees have been productive of much good — R. K. Carr> 3. a. yielding results, benefits, or profits b. yielding or devoted to the satisfaction of wants or the creation of utilities 4. continuing to be used in the formation of new words or constructions <un- is a productive prefix> 5. raising mucus or sputum (as from the bronchi) <a productive cough> • productively adverb • productiveness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 of or engaged in the production of goods. 2 producing much (productive soil; a productive writer). 3 Econ. producing commodities of exchangeable value (productive labour). 4 (foll. by of) producing or giving rise to (productive of great annoyance). Derivatives: productively adv. productiveness n. Etymology: F productif -ive or LL productivus (as PRODUCT)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Productive Pro*duc"tive, a. [F. productif, L. productivus fit for prolongation.] 1. 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. 2. Bringing into being; causing to exist; producing; originative; as, an age productive of great men; a spirit productive of heroic achievements. And kindle with thy own productive fire. --Dryden. This is turning nobility into a principle of virtue, and making it productive of merit. --Spectator. 3. Producing, or able to produce, in large measure; fertile; profitable. -- Pro*duc"tive*ly, adv. -- Pro*duc"tive*ness, n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. Someone or something that is productive produces or does a lot for the amount of resources used. Training makes workers highly productive... ...fertile and productive soils. ADJ • productively The company is certain to reinvest its profits productively. ADV: ADV with v 2. If you say that a relationship between people is productive, you mean that a lot of good or useful things happen as a result of it. He was hopeful that the next round of talks would also be productive... = fruitful ADJ • productively They feel they are interacting productively with elderly patients. ADV: ADV with v

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Fertile, prolific, fruitful. 2. Efficient, causative, producing, bringing into being.

Moby Thesaurus

able, abounding, abundant, adequate, advantageous, affluent, all-sufficing, ample, aplenty, banausic, blooming, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, breadwinning, bursting, bursting out, capable, causative, competent, conceptive, conceptual, constructive, copious, creative, demiurgic, diffuse, diffusive, dynamic, effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient, effuse, effusive, epidemic, equal to, esemplastic, exhaustless, extravagant, exuberant, fat, fecund, fertile, flourishing, flush, formative, formless, fructiferous, fruitful, full, gainful, galore, generative, generous, germinal, gushing, gushy, ideational, ideative, imaginative, in plenty, in quantity, inexhaustible, ingenious, inspired, inventive, lavish, liberal, lucrative, lush, luxuriant, many, maximal, moneymaking, much, notional, numerous, opulent, original, originative, overflowing, paying, plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, pleonastic, pregnant, prevailing, prevalent, prodigal, proficient, profitable, profuse, profusive, proliferous, prolific, rampant, redundant, reiterative, remunerative, repetitive, replete, resourceful, rewarding, rich, rife, riotous, running over, seminal, shaping, spawning, superabundant, swarming, tautologous, teeming, thriving, uberous, up to, valuable, vigorous, visioned, wealthy, well-found, well-furnished, well-paying, well-provided, well-stocked, wholesale, worthwhile