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productive
adj. prolific, fruitful; generative, creative; worthwhile, profitable, advantageous


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Productivity (linguistics)
In linguistics, productivity is the degree to which native speakers use a particular grammatical process, especially in word formation. Since use to produce novel (new, non-established) structures is the clearest proof of usage of a grammatical process, the evidence most often appealed to as establishing productivity is the appearance of novel forms of the type the process leads one to expect, and many people would limit the definition offered above to exclude use of a grammatical process that does not result in a novel structure. Thus in practice, and, for many, in theory, productivity is the degree to which native speakers use a particular grammatical process for the formation of novel structures. A productive grammatical process defines an open class, one which admits new words or forms. Non-productive grammatical processes may be seen as operative within closed classes, but only previously formed and learned structures show the results of those processes.
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productive
Adjective
1. producing or capable of producing (especially abundantly); "productive farmland"; "his productive years"; "a productive collaboration"
(antonym) unproductive
(similar) amentiferous, amentaceous
(see-also) creative, originative
2. having the ability to produce or originate; "generative power"; "generative forces"
(synonym) generative
(similar) creative, originative
3. yielding positive results
(similar) successful
4. marked by great fruitfulness; "fertile farmland"; "a fat land"; "a productive vineyard"; "rich soil"
(synonym) fat, fertile, rich
(similar) fruitful


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productif
adj. productive

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)Download this dictionary
Productive
(a.)
Producing, or able to produce, in large measure; fertile; profitable.
  
 
(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.
  
 
(a.)
Bringing into being; causing to exist; producing; originative; as, an age productive of great men; a spirit productive of heroic achievements.
  

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