productive

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: pro=duc=tive
• COUNT in NET: 5 in 5 verses (in OT : 4 in 4 verses) (in NT : 1 in 1 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

productive, a. [F. productif, L. productivus fit for prolongation.].

•  Having the quality or power of producing; yielding or furnishing results; as, productive soil; productive enterprises; productive labor, that which increases the number or amount of products.  [1913 Webster]
•  Bringing into being; causing to exist; producing; originative; as, an age productive of great men; a spirit productive of heroic achievements.  [1913 Webster]

  "And kindle with thy own productive fire."  [1913 Webster]

  "This is turning nobility into a principle of virtue, and making it productive of merit."  [1913 Webster]
•  Producing, or able to produce, in large measure; fertile; profitable.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

productive, adj.
1 of or engaged in the production of goods.
2 producing much (productive soil; a productive writer).
3 Econ. producing commodities of exchangeable value (productive labour).
4 (foll. by of) producing or giving rise to (productive of great annoyance).

Derivative

productively adv. productiveness n.

Etymology

F productif -ive or LL productivus (as PRODUCT)

THESAURUS

productive

able, abounding, abundant, adequate, advantageous, affluent, all-sufficing, ample, aplenty, banausic, blooming, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, breadwinning, bursting, bursting out, capable, causative, competent, conceptive, conceptual, constructive, copious, creative, demiurgic, diffuse, diffusive, dynamic, effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient, effuse, effusive, epidemic, equal to, esemplastic, exhaustless, extravagant, exuberant, fat, fecund, fertile, flourishing, flush, formative, formless, fructiferous, fruitful, full, gainful, galore, generative, generous, germinal, gushing, gushy, ideational, ideative, imaginative, in plenty, in quantity, inexhaustible, ingenious, inspired, inventive, lavish, liberal, lucrative, lush, luxuriant, many, maximal, moneymaking, much, notional, numerous, opulent, original, originative, overflowing, paying, plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, pleonastic, pregnant, prevailing, prevalent, prodigal, proficient, profitable, profuse, profusive, proliferous, prolific, rampant, redundant, reiterative, remunerative, repetitive, replete, resourceful, rewarding, rich, rife, riotous, running over, seminal, shaping, spawning, superabundant, swarming, tautologous, teeming, thriving, uberous, up to, valuable, vigorous, visioned, wealthy, well-found, well-furnished, well-paying, well-provided, well-stocked, wholesale, worthwhile

ROGET THESAURUS

productive

Power

N power, potency, potentiality, jiva, puissance, might, force, energy, dint, right hand, right arm, ascendency, sway, control, prepotency, prepollence, almightiness, omnipotence, authority, strength, ability, ableness, competency, efficacy, efficiency, productivity, expertise (skill), validity, cogency, enablement, vantage ground, influence, pressure, conductivity, elasticity, gravity, electricity, magnetism, galvanism, voltaic electricity, voltaism, electromagnetism, atomic power, nuclear power, thermonuclear power, fuel cell, hydraulic power, water power, hydroelectric power, solar power, solar energy, solar panels, tidal power, wind power, attraction, vis inertiae, vis mortua, vis viva, potential energy, dynamic energy, dynamic friction, dynamic suction, live circuit, live rail, live wire, capability, capacity, quid valeant humeri quid ferre recusent, faculty, quality, attribute, endowment, virtue, gift, property, qualification, susceptibility, powerful, puissant, potential, capable, able, equal to, up to, cogent, valid, efficient, productive, effective, effectual, efficacious, adequate, competent, multipotent, plenipotent, omnipotent, almighty, forcible, (energetic), influential, productive, powerfully, by virtue of, by dint of, a toute force, dos moi pou sto kai kino ten gen, eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis, fortis cadere cedere non potest, power, potency, potentiality, jiva, puissance, might, force, energy, dint, right hand, right arm, ascendency, sway, control, prepotency, prepollence, almightiness, omnipotence, authority, strength, ability, ableness, competency, efficacy, efficiency, productivity, expertise (skill), validity, cogency, enablement, vantage ground, influence, pressure, conductivity, elasticity, gravity, electricity, magnetism, galvanism, voltaic electricity, voltaism, electromagnetism, atomic power, nuclear power, thermonuclear power, fuel cell, hydraulic power, water power, hydroelectric power, solar power, solar energy, solar panels, tidal power, wind power, attraction, vis inertiae, vis mortua, vis viva, potential energy, dynamic energy, dynamic friction, dynamic suction, live circuit, live rail, live wire, capability, capacity, quid valeant humeri quid ferre recusent, faculty, quality, attribute, endowment, virtue, gift, property, qualification, susceptibility, powerful, puissant, potential, capable, able, equal to, up to, cogent, valid, efficient, productive, effective, effectual, efficacious, adequate, competent, multipotent, plenipotent, omnipotent, almighty, forcible, (energetic), influential, productive, powerfully, by virtue of, by dint of, a toute force, dos moi pou sto kai kino ten gen, eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis, fortis cadere cedere non potest.

Productiveness

N productiveness, fecundity, fertility, luxuriance, uberty, pregnancy, pullulation, fructification, multiplication, propagation, procreation, superfetation, milch cow, rabbit, hydra, warren, seed plot, land flowing with milk and honey, second crop, aftermath, aftercrop, aftergrowth, arrish, eddish, rowen, protoplasm, fertilization, productive, prolific, teeming, teemful, fertile, fruitful, frugiferous, fruit-bearing, fecund, luxuriant, pregnant, uberous, procreant, procreative, generative, life-giving, spermatic, multiparous, omnific, propagable, parturient, profitable.