Nonproductive vs Productive - What's the difference?
nonproductive | productive |
Not productive.
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
Nonproductive is an antonym of productive.
As adjectives the difference between nonproductive and productive
is that nonproductive is not productive while productive is capable of producing something, especially in abundance; fertile.nonproductive
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(-)Synonyms
* unproductive * unyieldlyAntonyms
* productiveDerived terms
*nonproductive cough *nonproductive loan *nonproductively *nonproductiveness *nonproductivityproductive
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(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.