productive
productive Lexical Profile
productive Game Scores & Validity
• adjective
Achieving a significant amount or yielding favorable, useful results; efficient and effective in work or effort.
"We had a very productive meeting this morning and finalized the entire project schedule."
Producing or capable of producing crops, goods, or creative works in large quantities; fertile or prolific.
"The river valley contains some of the most productive agricultural land in the country."
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 productive one."
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 productive in modern English for coining new abstract nouns."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the early 17th century from Middle French productif or directly from Late Latin productivus ('fit for production'), derived from Latin producere ('to bring forth, lead forward').