Unproductive

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  • adjective. Not productive; idle.
  • adjective. Adding nothing to exchangeable value.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Not productive; barren; more especially, not producing large crops; not making profitable returns for labor: as, unproductive land; in political economics, not increasing the quantity or exchangeable value of articles of consumption: as, unproductive labor.
  • Not producing some specified effect or result: with of: as, acts unproductive of good.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Not productive; useless; fruitless.
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  • adjective. not producing or capable of producing
  • adjective. not producing desired results
    • Word Usage
    "You see, she made her own living before she married me and she's got no use for what she calls the unproductive consumer."
    Equivalent
    bootless  dry  fruitless  futile  ineffective  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    conductive  constructive  destructive  instructive  nonproductive  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    barren  burdensome  fruitless  inaccessible  inapplicable  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    abortive  acarpous  arid  barren  bootless  
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