WordDisk
  • Reading
    • Shortcuts
      •   Home
      •   All Articles
      •   Read from Another Site
      Sources
      • Wikipedia
      • Simple Wikipedia
      • VOA Learning English
      • Futurity
      • The Conversation
      • MIT News
      • Harvard Gazette
      • Cambridge News
      • YDS/YÖKDİL Passages
      Topics
      • Technology
      • Engineering
      • Business
      • Economics
      • Human
      • Health
      • Energy
      • Biology
      • Nature
      • Space
  •  Log in
  •  Sign up
4.27
History
Add

productive adjective [ prəˈdʌktɪv ]

• producing or able to produce large amounts of goods, crops, or other commodities.
• "the most productive employees"
Similar: fertile, fruitful, rich, fecund, high-yielding,
Opposite: sterile, barren,
• (of a cough) that raises mucus from the respiratory tract.
Origin: early 17th century: from French productif, -ive or late Latin productivus, from product- ‘brought forth’, from the verb producere (see produce).


2025 WordDisk