'Productive' definitions:
Definition of 'productive'
From: WordNet
adjective
Producing or capable of producing (especially abundantly); "productive farmland"; "his productive years"; "a productive collaboration" [ant: unproductive]
adjective
Having the ability to produce or originate; "generative power"; "generative forces" [syn: generative, productive] [ant: consumptive]
adjective
Yielding positive results
adjective
Definition of 'Productive'
From: GCIDE
- Productive \Pro*duc"tive\, a. [F. productif, L. productivus fit for prolongation.] [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Bringing into being; causing to exist; producing; originative; as, an age productive of great men; a spirit productive of heroic achievements. [1913 Webster]
- And kindle with thy own productive fire. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- This is turning nobility into a principle of virtue, and making it productive of merit. --Spectator. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Producing, or able to produce, in large measure; fertile; profitable. [1913 Webster] -- {Pro*duc"tive*ly}, adv. -- {Pro*duc"tive*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'productive'
From: 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
Words containing 'Productive'
- Product,
- Productibility,
- Productible,
- Production,
- Productively,
- Productiveness,
- Productivity,
- by product,
- in production,
- By-product,
- Condensation product,
- Natural product,
- Pair production,
- Residual product,
- animal product,
- artistic production,
- cartesian product,
- cross product,
- dairy product,
- dairy products,
- dot product,
- dramatic production,
- end product,
- excretory product,
- food product,
- inner product,
- intermediate product,
- line of products,
- mass production,
- mathematical product,
- oil production,
- plant product,
- product development,
- product introduction,
- product line,
- product research,
- production cost,
- production line,
- production order,
- scalar product,
- software product,
- speech production,
- steel production,
- theatrical production,
- vector product,
- waste product,
- Natural product chemistry,
- gross domestic product,
- gross national product,
- marginal cost of production,
- universal product code,
- real gross national product,
- product-moment correlation coefficient,
- pearson product-moment correlation coefficient