"unproductive" meaning in English

See unproductive in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Audio: en-us-unproductive.ogg Forms: more unproductive [comparative], most unproductive [superlative]
Etymology: From un- + productive. Etymology templates: {{af|en|un-|productive|id1=negative}} 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)
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  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 terms prefixed with un- (negative) Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with un- (negative): 27 73 Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: nonproductive, unyieldly Derived forms: unproductive time

Alternative forms

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