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adj. Producing or capable of producing.

adj. Producing abundantly; fertile. See Synonyms at fertile.

adj. Yielding favorable or useful results; constructive.

adj. Economics Of or involved in the creation of goods and services to produce wealth or value.

adj. Effective in achieving specified results; originative: policies productive of much harm.

adj. Medicine Producing mucus or sputum: a productive cough.

adj. Medicine Forming new tissue: a productive inflammation.

adj. Linguistics Of or relating to the linguistic skills of speaking and writing.

adj. Linguistics Of or relating to a linguistic element or rule that can be used to form further examples of a particular feature or pattern. The English past tense suffix -ed is productive since it continues to be added to new verbs to form the past tense.

adj. Capable of producing something, especially in abundance; fertile

adj. yielding good or useful results; constructive

adj. Of, or relating to the creation of goods or services

adj. consistently applicable to any of an open set of words

adj. Having the quality or power of producing; yielding or furnishing results

adj. Bringing into being; causing to exist; producing; originative

adj. Producing, or able to produce, in large measure; fertile; profitable.

Serving to produce; having the power of producing: as, an age productive of great men.

Fertile; producing abundant crops: as, a productive soil.

In political economics, causing or tending to cause an increase in the quantity or quality of things of value; causing commodities to possess exchangeable value: as, productive labor.

adj. yielding positive results

adj. producing or capable of producing (especially abundantly)

adj. having the ability to produce or originate

adj. marked by great fruitfulness

"But I think an educated public realizing that they can effectively "vote" with their dollars for which businesses/authors remain productive is probably a good thing."

successful    fur-bearing    tillable    rich    oil-bearing    amentaceous    cultivable    fecund    cultivatable    nut-bearing   

barren    nonproductive    unproductive   

creative    causative    originative    fruitful    productive imagination   

productiveness    productively   

producing    originative    fertile    profitable    rich    fruitful    prolific    plenteous    fructuous    proliferous   

conductive    constructive    destructive    instructive    nonproductive    obstructive    photoconductive    reconstructive    reproductive    seductive   

profitable    creative    useful    fruitful    efficient    healthy    prosperous    capable    rational