unproductive

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Etymology

From un- + productive.

Adjective

unproductive

1. Not productive; useless; fruitless.

   Juggling is an amusing pastime, but generally unproductive.

2. (linguistics, of affixes, mechanisms of word formation, etc) No longer used to produce new words (see examples).

Synonyms

• nonproductive
• unyieldly

Translations

• French: improductif
• German: unproduktiv
• Portuguese: improdutivo
• Russian: непродукти́вный

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