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Adjective: productive  pru'dúk-tiv
  1. Producing or capable of producing (especially abundantly)
    "productive farmland"; "his productive years"; "a productive collaboration"
     
  2. Yielding positive results
    - fruitful
     
  3. (of land or soil) capable of growing abundant crops or plants
    "a productive vineyard";
    - fat, fertile, rich
     
  4. Having the ability to produce or originate
    "productive power";
    - generative
     
  5. (linguistics, of a suffix or prefix) applicable to a set of words to produce new words

See also: amentaceous, amentiferous, arable, creative, cultivable, cultivatable, fecund, fertile, fruitful, fur-bearing, nut-bearing, oil-bearing, originative, profitable, prolific, rich, successful, tillable

Antonym: unproductive

Encyclopedia: Productive