Conducive vs Productive - What's the difference?
conducive | productive |
Tending to contribute to, encourage, or bring about some result.
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
As adjectives the difference between conducive and productive
is that conducive is tending to contribute to, encourage, or bring about some result while productive is capable of producing something, especially in abundance; fertile.conducive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- A small, dark kitchen is not conducive to elaborate cooking.
Antonyms
* inconducive * unconduciveSee also
* conduceproductive
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.