Fecund vs Unproductive - What's the difference?
fecund | unproductive |
(formal) Highly fertile; able to produce offspring.
* 2001 , Massimo Livi Bacci, A Concise History of World Population? , page 9
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(figuratively) Leading to new ideas or innovation.
* 1906 , , "The Basis of Pragmatism in the Normative Sciences", in The Essential Pierce: Selected Philosophical Writings? , volume II, page 373
Not productive; useless; fruitless.
:Juggling is an amusing pastime, but generally unproductive .
As adjectives the difference between fecund and unproductive
is that fecund is (formal) highly fertile; able to produce offspring while unproductive is not productive; useless; fruitless.fecund
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* (qualifier)Adjective
(en adjective)- The number of children per woman depends, as has been said, on biological and social factors which determine: (1) the frequency of births during a woman's fecund' period, and (2) the portion of the ' fecund period--between puberty and menopause--effectively utilized for reproduction.
- This idea of Aristotle's has proved marvellously fecund ; and in truth it is the only idea covering quite the whole area of cenoscopy that has shown any marked uberosity.