productiveness

[pruh-duhk-tiv]

pro·duc·tive

[pruh-duhk-tiv]
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 followed 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.
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6.
(in language learning) of or pertaining to the language skills of speaking and writing (opposed to receptive).
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Origin:
1605–15; < Medieval Latin productīvus. See product, -ive

pro·duc·tive·ly, adverb
pro·duc·tive·ness, noun
pro·duc·tiv·i·ty [proh-duhk-tiv-i-tee] , noun
an·ti·pro·duc·tive, adjective
an·ti·pro·duc·tive·ly, adverb
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an·ti·pro·duc·tive·ness, noun
qua·si-pro·duc·tive, adjective
qua·si-pro·duc·tive·ly, adverb
sem·i·pro·duc·tive, adjective
sem·i·pro·duc·tive·ly, adverb
sem·i·pro·duc·tive·ness, noun
un·pro·duc·tive, adjective
un·pro·duc·tive·ly, adverb
un·pro·duc·tive·ness, noun
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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.


2. sterile.

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Productiveness is always a great word to know.
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productive (prəˈdʌktɪv)
 
adj (foll by of)
1.  producing or having the power to produce; fertile
2.  yielding favourable or effective results
3.  economics
 a.  producing or capable of producing goods and services that have monetary or exchange value: productive assets
 b.  of or relating to such production: the productive processes of an industry
4.  resulting in: productive of good results
5.  denoting an affix or combining form used to produce new words
 
pro'ductively
 
adv
 
pro'ductiveness
 
n

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