productive
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
productive/prəˈdʌktɪv/
▶adjective
- 1 producing or able to produce large amounts of goods, crops, etc.
■ relating to or engaged in the production of goods, crops, etc.
- 2 achieving or producing a significant amount or result.
- 3 (productive of) producing.
- 4 Linguistics (of a prefix, suffix, etc.) currently used in forming new words or expressions.
- 5 Medicine (of a cough) raising mucus from the respiratory tract.
– derivatives
productively adverb,
productiveness noun.
productively adverb,
productiveness noun.
– origin C17: from Fr. productif, -ive or late L. productivus, from product-, producere (see produce).
'productive' also found in these Oxford entries:
cost-effective
- fruitful
- genial
- non-productive
- overcapacity
- productivity
- -some
- Stakhanovite
- unfruitful

