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pro⋅duc⋅tive

  [pruh-duhk-tiv]
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–adjective
1. having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
2. producing readily or abundantly; fertile: a productive vineyard.
3. causing; bringing about (usually fol. by of): conditions productive of crime and sin.
4. Economics. producing or tending to produce goods and services having exchange value.
5. Grammar. (of derivational affixes or patterns) readily used in forming new words, as the suffix -ness.
6. (in language learning) of or pertaining to the language skills of speaking and writing (opposed to receptive ).
Origin:
1605–15; < ML productīvus. See product, -ive

Related forms:
pro⋅duc⋅tive⋅ly, adverb
pro⋅duc⋅tive⋅ness, noun
pro⋅duc⋅tiv⋅i⋅ty  [proh-duhk-tiv-i-tee] , noun

Synonyms:
2. fecund. Productive, fertile, fruitful, prolific apply to the generative aspect of something. Productive refers to a generative source of continuing activity: productive soil; a productive influence. Fertile applies to that in which seeds, literal or figurative, take root: fertile soil; a fertile imagination. Fruitful refers to that which has already produced and is capable of further production: fruitful soil, discovery, theory. Prolific means highly productive: a prolific farm, writer.

Antonyms:
2. sterile.
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Word Origin & History

productive 
1612, from Fr. productif (16c.), from M.L. productivus "fit for production," from L. productus, pp. of producere (see produce). Productivity is from 1809 with meaning "quality of being productive;" economic sense of "rate of output per unit" is from 1899.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: pro·duc·tive
Pronunciation: pr&-'d&k-tiv, prO-
Function: adjective
: raising mucus or sputum (as from the bronchi)—used of a cough productive cough and chest pain —California Medicine>
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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productive pro·duc·tive (prə-dŭk'tĭv, prō-)
adj.

  1. Producing or capable of producing mucus or sputum.

  2. Forming new tissue, as of an inflammation.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
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