Productive vs Plenteous - What's the difference?

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Productive is a related term of plenteous.

As adjectives the difference between productive and plenteous

is that productive is capable of producing something, especially in abundance; fertile while plenteous is in plenty; abundant.

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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plenteous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

In plenty; abundant.

His farm, though small, nevertheless allowed him a plenteous supply of healthy food.

* Milton

Reaping plenteous crop.

(obsolete) Having plenty; abounding; rich.

* Bible, Deuteronomy xxviii. 11.

The Lord shall make thee plenteous in goods.