adjective. Not yielding or producing.

adjective. Not engaged in the direct production of goods.

noun. A person who produces no useful work.

Lacking the power of producing; not fertile.

Unproductive financially; not yielding revenue; unprofitable, as a mine or a farm.

In political economics, not causing or tending to cause an increase in the quantity or quality of things of value; not causing commodities to possess exchangeable value: as, non-productive labor.

noun. A person or industry that does not cause an increase in the quantity, quality, or exchangeable value of commodities.

adjective. not directly productive.

adjective. Not productive.

adjective. not directly productive

"IHS Global Insight economist Brian Bethune calls it the gold trap: Investors are parking their funds in nonproductive assets like gold that undermine the Fed 's efforts to simulate activity."

productive  

unproductive  

nonproductive cough  nonproductive loan  

conductive  constructive  destructive  instructive  obstructive  

Mari  aggravate  agonal  amodal  anddisastrous  

acarpous  arid  barren  celibate  childless