"unproductive" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

Audio: en-us-unproductive.ogg [US] Forms: more unproductive [comparative], most unproductive [superlative]
Etymology: un- + productive Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|un|productive}} un- + productive Head templates: {{en-adj}} unproductive (comparative more unproductive, superlative most unproductive)
  1. Not productive; useless; fruitless. Translations (not productive): improductiu (Catalan), 無生產的 (Chinese Mandarin), 无生产的 (wúshēngchǎn de) (Chinese Mandarin), neproduktivní (Czech), onproductief (Dutch), improductief (Dutch), tuottamaton (Finnish), improductif (French), unproduktiv (German), terméketlen (Hungarian), improduktív (Hungarian), gyümölcstelen (Hungarian), meddő (Hungarian), szaporátlan (Hungarian), 非生産的 (hiseisanteki) (Japanese), whiro (note: refers especially to soils) (Maori), mūhore (Maori), tītōhea (note: of soil) (Maori), pūweku (note: of crops) (Maori), pūeku (note: of crops) (Maori), fruchtlooss (Plautdietsch), bezproduktywny (Polish), nieproduktywny (Polish), improdutivo (Portuguese), neproductiv (Romanian), nefructuos (Romanian), непродукти́вный (neproduktívnyj) (Russian), непроизводи́тельный (neproizvodítelʹnyj) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-unproductive-en-adj-GOicIPUM Disambiguation of 'not productive': 92 8
  2. (linguistics, of affixes, mechanisms of word formation, etc) No longer used to produce new words (see examples). Categories (topical): Linguistics
    Sense id: en-unproductive-en-adj-OQyMcQpF Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with un- Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 21 79 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with un-: 13 87 Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: nonproductive, unyieldly

Alternative forms

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