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nonproductive
CIDE DICTIONARY
nonproductive, adj.
not directly productive; as, nonproductive labor. [WordNet 1.5]
THESAURUS
nonproductive
acarpous, arid, barren, celibate, childless, desert, desolate, drained, dried-up, dry, exhausted, fallow, fruitless, gaunt, gelded, impotent, ineffectual, infecund, infertile, issueless, jejune, leached, menopausal, nonfertile, nonproducing, nonprolific, sine prole, sterile, sucked dry, teemless, uncultivated, unfertile, unfruitful, unplowed, unproductive, unprolific, unsown, untilled, virgin, waste, wasted, without issueFor further exploring for "nonproductive" in Webster Dictionary Online