Predictive vs Productive - What's the difference?
predictive | productive |
Useful in predicting.
:The amount of rain in April is predictive of the number of mosquitoes in May.
(computing) Describing a predictor.
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 predictive and productive
is that predictive is while productive is capable of producing something, especially in abundance; fertile.predictive
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(en adjective)Derived terms
*predictive textAntonyms
*reactiveproductive
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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.