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Meaning of 'productive' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Productive [ a.]
- Having the quality or power of producing; yielding or furnishing results; as, productive soil; productive enterprises; productive labor, that which increases the number or amount of products.
- Bringing into being; causing to exist; producing; originative; as, an age productive of great men; a spirit productive of heroic achievements.
- Producing, or able to produce, in large measure; fertile; profitable.

Meaning of 'productive' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . productive [ a]
Meaning (1):
- producing or capable of producing (especially abundantly)
Example in sentence:
  • a productive collaboration;
  • his productive years;
  • productive farmland
Meaning (2):
- having the ability to produce or originate
Example in sentence:
  • generative forces;
  • generative power
3 . productive [ s]
Meaning (3):
- marked by great fruitfulness
Example in sentence:
  • a fat land;
  • a productive vineyard;
  • fertile farmland;
  • rich soil