productive Antonyms
Opposite of productive
• adjective (Context 1)
Achieving a significant amount or yielding favorable, useful results; efficient and effective in work or effort.
"We had a very unproductive meeting this morning and finalized the entire project schedule."
• adjective (Context 2)
Producing or capable of producing crops, goods, or creative works in large quantities; fertile or prolific.
"The river valley contains some of the most barren agricultural land in the country."
• adjective (Context 3)
In medicine, producing or raising mucus or sputum from the respiratory tract (used especially of a cough).
"The doctor asked whether the patient had a dry, hacking cough or a nonproductive one."
• adjective (Context 4)
In linguistics and language learning, relating to the active creation of speech or writing (as opposed to receptive skills), or describing an affix or grammatical rule that is actively used to form new words.
"The suffix '-ness' remains highly unproductive in modern English for coining new abstract nouns."
Similar words to productive
Words similar to productive shift depending on context. Common synonyms include: