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Productive vs Instructive - What's the difference?

productive | instructive |

As adjectives the difference between productive and instructive

is that productive is capable of producing something, especially in abundance; fertile while instructive is conveying knowledge, information or instruction.

As a noun instructive is

(linguistics) a case in the finnish language it expresses the means or the instrument used to perform an action.

productive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • 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
  • *
  • 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.
  • (medicine) of a cough, producing mucus or sputum from the respiratory tract
  • (medicine) of inflammation, producing new tissue
  • Usage notes

    In English, the plural suffix “-es” is productive' because it can be appended to an open set of words (singular nouns ending in sibilants). Thus, if a new word with that pattern becomes an English noun (e.g. *''examplex''), it would have a default plural (e.g. *''examplexes'') because “-es” is ' productive .

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * unproductive * nonproductive * destructive * baneful * ruinous

    References

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    instructive

    English

    (wikipedia)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • conveying knowledge, information or instruction.
  • Well, that was an instructive lesson.

    Synonyms

    * informative

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (linguistics) A case in the Finnish language. It expresses the means or the instrument used to perform an action.