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English
Etymology
un- + productive
Pronunciation
Adjective
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
- unproductive is much more common than nonproductive.
Synonyms
Translations
not productive
- Catalan: improductiu
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 無生產的／无生产的 (wúshēngchǎn de)
- Czech: neproduktivní
- Dutch: onproductief (nl), improductief (nl)
- Finnish: tuottamaton (fi)
- French: improductif (fr)
- German: unproduktiv
- Hungarian: terméketlen (hu), improduktív (hu), gyümölcstelen (hu), meddő (hu), szaporátlan (hu)
- Japanese: 非生産的 (hiseisanteki)
- Maori: whiro (refers especially to soils), mūhore, tītōhea (of soil), pūweku (of crops), pūeku (of crops)
- Plautdietsch: fruchtlooss
- Polish: bezproduktywny (pl), nieproduktywny
- Portuguese: improdutivo (pt)
- Romanian: neproductiv (ro), nefructuos (ro)
- Russian: непродукти́вный (ru) (neproduktívnyj), непроизводи́тельный (ru) (neproizvodítelʹnyj)
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