productive
productive is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Bringing into being; causing to exist; producing; originative; as, an age productive of great men; a spirit productive of heroic achievements. And kindle with thy own productive fire. Dryden. This is turning nobility into a principle of virtue, and making it productive of merit. Spectator.
- 2.Producing, or able to produce, in large measure; fertile; profitable. -- Pro*duc"tive*ly, adv. -- Pro*duc"tive*ness, n.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- aftercrop
- aftergrowth
- aftermath
- and
- arrish
- conceive
- cow
- crop
- eddish
- fecund
- fecundate
- fecundify
- fecundity
- fertile
- fertility
- fertilization
- fertilize
- flowing
- fructification
- fructify
- frugiferous
- fruitful
- generate
- generative
- honey
- hydra
- impregnate
- land
- life-giving
- luxuriance
- luxuriant
- make
- milch
- milk
- multiparous
- multiplication
- multiply
- omnific
- parturient
- plot
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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