productive
adj/pɹəˈdʌk.tɪv/ · /pɹəˈdʌk.təv/
Etymology Borrowed from Late Latin productivus, equivalent to product + -ive.
7 senses
- 1Capable of producing something, especially in abundance; fertile.
- 2Yielding good or useful results; constructive.
- 3Of, or relating to the creation of goods or services.
- 4Consistently applicable to any of an open set of words.
- 5Of a cough, producing mucus or sputum from the respiratory tract.
- 6Of inflammation, producing new tissue.
- 7A type of set of natural numbers, related to mathematical…
Capable of producing something, especially in abundance; fertile.
Yielding good or useful results; constructive.
Of, or relating to the creation of goods or services.
Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences Consistently applicable to any of an open set of words.
Of an affix or word construction rule
- Moreover, this relationship is a productive one, in the sense that when new Adjectives are created (e.g. ginormous concocted out of gigantic and enormous), then the corresponding Adverb form (in this case ginormously) can also be used. And in those exceptional cases where Adverbs do not end in -ly, they generally have the same form as the corresponding Adjective, as with hard, fast, etc.1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 138:
Medicine, Sciences Of a cough, producing mucus or sputum from the respiratory tract.
Medicine, Sciences Of inflammation, producing new tissue.
Mathematics, Sciences, Set theory A type of set of natural numbers, related to mathematical logic; a set S is productive if there exists a total recursive function f such that ∀x∈ℕ,~~W_x⊆S⇒f(x)∈A⧵W_x, where W_x is a recursive function whose Gödel number is x.
- a productive set
- Synonyms
- productive, prolific, pregnant, batful, fertile, fruitful, thriving, yielding, yieldly, voluminous
- Antonyms
- baneful, barren, counterproductive, counter-productive, destructive, nonproductive, non-productive, ruinous, unproductive, fruitless, sterile
- Derived terms
- bioproductive, contraproductive, hyperproductive, hypoproductive, improductive, osteoproductive, overproductive, preproductive, productive efficiency, productive forces, productivism, productivist, productivize, semiproductive, superproductive, underproductive
- Related terms
- productively, productiveness, productivity, abundant