1 making goods or growing crops, especially in large quantities:
highly productive farming land / manufacturing methods * productive farmers / workers * The aim was to maximize the machine's productive capacity.
OPPUNPRODUCTIVE
2 doing or achieving a lot:
a productive meeting * My time spent in the library was very productive.
compareCOUNTERPRODUCTIVE
3 ~ of sth (formal) resulting in sth or causing sth:
a play productive of the strongest emotions
OPPUNPRODUCTIVE
productively adverb:
to use land more productively * It's important to spend your time productively.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is productive a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, productive is tagged as adjective.
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