productive
/productive/
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Yielding positive or useful results; effective: Describing something that achieves desired outcomes or contributes constructively.
- Producing or capable of producing goods, crops, or other outputs, especially abundantly: Relating to the generation of physical or intellectual products.
- Marked by great fruitfulness; fertile: Characterizing land, efforts, or periods that generate a rich abundance.
Examples of Usage
- Adjective:
- The meeting was very productive; we finalized the project plan.
- This region has productive farmland that yields two harvests a year.
- She is in a productive phase of her career, publishing several papers.
Advanced Usage
- "Productive of": Giving rise to; causing.
- The policy was productive of many unintended consequences.
- Economically productive: Specifically relating to the generation of economic value or output.
- Investing in education creates an economically productive workforce.
Variants and Related Words
- Productively (adverb): In a way that produces good results.
- The team worked productively to meet the deadline.
- Productivity (noun): The state or quality of being productive; the rate of output per unit of input.
- The new software improved office productivity.
- Unproductive (adjective): Not producing or capable of producing good results; not fruitful.
- It was an unproductive discussion that resolved nothing.
Synonyms
- Fertile: Rich in the production of vegetation or ideas.
- Fruitful: Producing good or helpful results; productive.
- Generative: Having the power to produce or originate.
- Effective: Successful in producing a desired or intended result.
Related Phrases
- Productive capacity: The maximum output that can be produced with existing resources and technology.
- The factory is operating at full productive capacity.
- Productive investment: Investment in assets that are expected to generate future income or increase productive output.
- The government is encouraging productive investment in renewable energy.
Related Idioms
- A productive member of society: A person who contributes positively and constructively to their community.
- After his training, he became a productive member of society.
Adjective
- marked by great fruitfulness
- fertile farmland
- a fat land
- a productive vineyard
- rich soil
- yielding positive results
- having the ability to produce or originate
- generative power
- generative forces
- producing or capable of producing (especially abundantly)
- productive farmland
- his productive years
- a productive collaboration