unproductive
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]un- + productive
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]unproductive (comparative more unproductive, superlative most unproductive)
- Not productive; useless; fruitless.
- Juggling is an amusing pastime, but generally unproductive.
- (linguistics, of affixes, mechanisms of word formation, etc) No longer used to produce new words (see examples).
Usage notes
[edit]- unproductive is much more common than nonproductive.
Synonyms
[edit]Translations
[edit]not productive
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Further reading
[edit]- “unproductive”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “unproductive”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- unproductive, nonproductive at Google Ngram Viewer