Arable vs Productive - What's the difference?
arable | productive | Synonyms |
Able to be plowed or tilled, capable of growing crops (traditionally contrasted with (pasturable) lands such as heaths).
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Under cultivation (within any quinquennial period) for the production of crops sown and harvested within the same agricultural year (contrasted with (permanent)ly-cropped lands such as orchards).
capable of producing something, especially in abundance; fertile
yielding good or useful results; constructive
of, or relating to the creation of goods or services
(linguistics, of an affix or word construction rule) consistently applicable to any of an open set of words
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(medicine) of a cough, producing mucus or sputum from the respiratory tract
(medicine) of inflammation, producing new tissue
Arable is a synonym of productive.
As adjectives the difference between arable and productive
is that arable is able to be plowed or tilled, capable of growing crops (traditionally contrasted with (pasturable) lands such as heaths) while productive is capable of producing something, especially in abundance; fertile.arable
English
(arable land)Adjective
(en adjective)- And again, since no animal now stole, it was unnecessary to fence off pasture from arable land
productive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.