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/prədˈəktɪv/ /proʊdˈəktɪv/ /pərdˈəktɪv/ Listen

Productive

adjective

Producing or capable of producing (especially abundantly). "His productive years" , "A productive collaboration"

Having the ability to produce or originate. Synonym: generative. "Generative forces"

Yielding positive results.

Marked by great fruitfulness. Synonyms: fat, fertile, rich. "A fat land" , "A productive vineyard" , "Rich soil"

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... a barrier be opposed to its downward course, let it be dammed up, let a point of resistance be afforded where its waters may be gathered together, and regulated, you find it turned to valuable account, acting with men's hands, becoming a productive labourer, and contributing its time and its industry to advance the general ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXVIII. February, 1843. Vol. LIII. • Various

... visit which threatened to prove disastrous, by judicious management gave promise of being productive of great good ...

— Ben Hadden - or, Do Right Whatever Comes Of It • W.H.G. Kingston

... more to cultivate an acre of rich, productive land than an acre of poor, unproductive land; and the pleasure and profit of harvesting a crop that abundantly rewards the husbandman for his care and labor are so overwhelmingly in favor of rich land as to need no comment. Besides, ...

— The $100 Prize Essay on the Cultivation of the Potato; and How to Cook the Potato • D. H. Compton and Pierre Blot

... of wind, when it is most wanted, by the pitching and floundering about of the vessel: every now and then she is submerged in the trough of the sea, covered with spray and drift, or, what is most to be dreaded, she is liable to be blown away from her moorings; an accident which has been productive of the most disastrous consequences to life ...

— Smeaton and Lighthouses - A Popular Biography, with an Historical Introduction and Sequel • John Smeaton

... have brought their machinery. Each community sets its own limit according to circumstances, taking care always that there shall never arise any class of poor by the pressure of population upon the productive powers of the domain; and that no state shall be too large for a government resembling that of a single well-ordered family. I imagine that no vril community exceeds thirty-thousand households. But, as a general rule, ...

— The Coming Race • Edward Bulwer Lytton

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