 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
productive
adjective
1: producing or capable of producing (especially abundantly);
"productive farmland"; "his productive years"; "a
productive collaboration" [ant: {unproductive}]
2: having the ability to produce or originate; "generative
power"; "generative forces" [syn: {generative}] [ant: {consumptive}]
3: yielding positive results
4: marked by great fruitfulness; "fertile farmland"; "a fat
land"; "a productive vineyard"; "rich soil" [syn: {fat}, {fertile},
{rich}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Productive \Pro*duc"tive\, adjective [F. productif, L. productivus fit
for prolongation.]
1. Having the quality or power of producing; yielding or
furnishing results; as, productive soil; productive
enterprises; productive labor, that which increases the
number or amount of products.
2. Bringing into being; causing to exist; producing;
originative; as, an age productive of great men; a spirit
productive of heroic achievements.
And kindle with thy own productive fire. --Dryden.
This is turning nobility into a principle of virtue,
and making it productive of merit. --Spectator.
3. Producing, or able to produce, in large measure; fertile;
profitable.
-- {Pro*duc"tive*ly}, adverb --
{Pro*duc"tive*ness}, noun
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
131 Moby Thesaurus words for "productive":
able, abounding, abundant, adequate, advantageous, affluent,
all-sufficing, ample, aplenty, banausic, blooming, bottomless,
bounteous, bountiful, breadwinning, bursting, bursting out,
capable, causative, competent, conceptive, conceptual,
constructive, copious, creative, demiurgic, diffuse, diffusive,
dynamic, effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient, effuse,
effusive, epidemic, equal to, esemplastic, exhaustless,
extravagant, exuberant, fat, fecund, fertile, flourishing, flush,
formative, formless, fructiferous, fruitful, full, gainful, galore,
generative, generous, germinal, gushing, gushy, ideational,
ideative, imaginative, in plenty, in quantity, inexhaustible,
ingenious, inspired, inventive, lavish, liberal, lucrative, lush,
luxuriant, many, maximal, moneymaking, much, notional, numerous,
opulent, original, originative, overflowing, paying, plenitudinous,
plenteous, plentiful, plenty, pleonastic, pregnant, prevailing,
prevalent, prodigal, proficient, profitable, profuse, profusive,
proliferous, prolific, rampant, redundant, reiterative,
remunerative, repetitive, replete, resourceful, rewarding, rich,
rife, riotous, running over, seminal, shaping, spawning,
superabundant, swarming, tautologous, teeming, thriving, uberous,
up to, valuable, vigorous, visioned, wealthy, well-found,
well-furnished, well-paying, well-provided, well-stocked,
wholesale, worthwhile
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