| Meaning | not producing or capable of producing. |
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| Example | "elimination of high-cost or unproductive industries" |
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| Narrower | bootless, fruitless, futile, sleeveless, vain | unproductive of success |
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| dry | unproductive especially of the expected results |
| nonproductive | not directly productive |
| See also | sterile, unfertile, infertile | incapable of reproducing |
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| uncreative | not creative |
| unprofitable | producing little or no profit or gain |
| Opposite | productive | producing or capable of producing (especially abundantly) |
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| Spanish | improductivo |
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| Nouns | unproductiveness | the quality of lacking the power to produce |
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| Adverbs | unproductively | in an unproductive manner |
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