Thesaurus: productive

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1. 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.
2. a. Bringing into being; causing to exist; producing; originative; as, an age productive of great men; a spirit productive of heroic achievements.
3. a. Producing, or able to produce, in large measure; fertile; profitable.
4. adj. producing or capable of producing (especially abundantly)
5. adj. having the ability to produce or originate
6. adj. yielding positive results
7. adj. marked by great fruitfulness
8. 1. 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. 2. Bringing into being; causing to exist; producing; originative; as, an age productive of great men; a spirit productive of heroic achievements. And kindle with thy own productive fire. Dryden. This is turning nobility into a principle of virtue, and making it productive of merit. Spectator. 3. Producing, or able to produce, in large measure; fertile; profitable. -- Pro*duc"tive*ly, adv. -- Pro*duc"tive*ness, n.
9. j:100 a. producing or capable of producing (especially abundantly) s. yielding positive results