unproductive
English
Etymology
un- + productive
Pronunciation
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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).
Synonyms
Translations
not productive
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