productive

adj.

1. Producing or capable of producing.
2. Producing abundantly; fertile. See synonyms at fertile.
3. Yielding favorable or useful results; constructive.
4. Economics. Of or involved in the creation of goods and services to produce wealth or value.
5. Effective in achieving specified results; originative: policies productive of much harm.
6. Medicine.
   1. Producing mucus or sputum: a productive cough.
   2. Forming new tissue: a productive inflammation.
7. Linguistics.
   1. Of or relating to the linguistic skills of speaking and writing.
   2. Of or relating to a linguistic element or rule that can be used to form further examples of a particular feature or pattern. The English past tense suffix –ed is productive since it continues to be added to new verbs to form the past tense.

productively pro·duc'tive·ly adv.
productiveness pro·duc'tive·ness n.

State of being creative. For example, an artist who is very prolific is said to be productive. See also Productivity.

adjective

1. Producing or able to produce a desired effect: effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient. See thrive/fail/exist.
2. Capable of reproducing: fecund, fertile, fruitful, prolific. Biology proliferous. See rich/poor.
3. Characterized by great productivity: fecund, fertile, fruitful, prolific, rich. See rich/poor.
4. Acting effectively with minimal waste: efficient. See industrious/lazy, thrive/fail/exist.

adj

Definition: fruitful, creative
Antonyms: fruitless, impotent, unfruitful, unproductive

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Producing or forming. Said especially of (1) an inflammation that produces new tissue or of a cough that brings forth sputum or mucus, and (2) an animal or animal enterprise that has a net excess production which is available to the farmer and produced in a cost-effective operation.

• p. life — that part of an animal's life during which it is productive.

Dansk (Danish)
adj. - produktiv, frugtbar, værdiskabende

Nederlands (Dutch)
productief, met veel resultaat, (veel) producerend

Français (French)
adj. - productif

Deutsch (German)
adj. - produktiv, ertragreich, fruchtbar

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - παραγωγικός, γόνιμος

Italiano (Italian)
produttivo

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - produtivo

Русский (Russian)
продуктивный, производительный

Español (Spanish)
adj. - productivo, fructífero

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - fruktbar, bördig, produktiv, produktions-

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
生产的, 生产性的, 多产的, 丰饶的, 肥沃的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 生產的, 生產性的, 多產的, 豐饒的, 肥沃的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 생산적인, 다산의

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 生産力のある, 肥えた, 生産的な, 生じる

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) منتج‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮מועיל, יוצר, פורה, מביא ברכה, יצרני‬

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