adjective
- having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- producing readily or abundantly; fertile: a productive vineyard.
- causing; bringing about (usually followed by of): conditions productive of crime and sin.
- Economics. producing or tending to produce goods and services having exchange value.
- Grammar. (of derivational affixes or patterns) readily used in forming new words, as the suffix -ness.
- (in language learning) of or relating to the language skills of speaking and writing (opposed to receptive).
adjective
- (often foll by of) not productive of (anything)
- not producing goods and services with exchange value
adjective
- producing or having the power to produce; fertile
- yielding favourable or effective results
- economics
- producing or capable of producing goods and services that have monetary or exchange valueproductive assets
- of or relating to such productionthe productive processes of an industry
- (postpositive foll by of) resulting inproductive of good results
- denoting an affix or combining form used to produce new words
adj.1756, from un- (1) “not” + productive. adj.1610s, from French productif (16c.) and directly from Medieval Latin productivus “fit for production,” from Latin product-, past participle stem of producere (see produce (v.)). Related: Productively; productiveness. adj.
- Producing or capable of producing mucus or sputum.
- Forming new tissue, as of an inflammation.