... Otherwise it is (or will be) hard to avoid a counterproductive situation.
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Counterproductive
//ˌkaʊntəpɹəˈdʌktɪv//
Synonyms for "counterproductive" (81 found)
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Closest matches (17)
Strong matches (24)
Related words (40)
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2 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
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2 entriesTranslations
41 translations across 35 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- teenproduktief adj (more of a hindrance than a help)
Albanian
1 entries- antiproduktiv adj (more of a hindrance than a help)
Arabic
1 entries- نَتَائِج عَكْسِيَّة adj (more of a hindrance than a help)
Belarusian
1 entries- контрпрадукты́ўны adj (more of a hindrance than a help)
Bulgarian
1 entries- контрапродукти́вно adj (more of a hindrance than a help)
Catalan
1 entries- contraproduent adj (more of a hindrance than a help)
Cebuano
1 entries- kontra-produktibo adj (more of a hindrance than a help)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 反效果的 adj (more of a hindrance than a help)
- 產生反作用的 /产生反作用的 adj (more of a hindrance than a help)
- 適得其反 /适得其反 adj (more of a hindrance than a help)
Czech
1 entries- kontraproduktivní adj (more of a hindrance than a help)
Danish
1 entries- kontraproduktiv adj (more of a hindrance than a help)
Dutch
1 entries- averechts adj (more of a hindrance than a help)
Esperanto
2 entries- kontraŭintenca adj (more of a hindrance than a help)
- malefika adj (more of a hindrance than a help)
Finnish
1 entries- haitallinen adj (more of a hindrance than a help)
French
2 entries- contre-productif adj (more of a hindrance than a help)
- contreproductif adj (more of a hindrance than a help)
Galician
1 entries- contraproducente adj (more of a hindrance than a help)
Georgian
1 entries- კონტრპროდუქტიული adj (more of a hindrance than a help)
German
1 entries- kontraproduktiv adj (more of a hindrance than a help)
Greek
1 entries- αντιπαραγωγικός adj (more of a hindrance than a help)
Haitian Creole
1 entries- kontreproduktiv adj (more of a hindrance than a help)
Hungarian
1 entries- kontraproduktív adj (more of a hindrance than a help)
Igbo
1 entries- imebi adj (more of a hindrance than a help)
Indonesian
1 entries- kontraproduktif adj (more of a hindrance than a help)
Italian
1 entries- controproducente adj (more of a hindrance than a help)
Japanese
1 entries- 反生産的 adj (more of a hindrance than a help)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- каршылыктуу adj (more of a hindrance than a help)
Macedonian
1 entries- контрапродуктивен adj (more of a hindrance than a help)
Polish
2 entries- kontrproduktywny adj (more of a hindrance than a help)
- przeciwskuteczny adj (more of a hindrance than a help)
Portuguese
1 entries- contraprodutivo adj (more of a hindrance than a help)
Romanian
1 entries- contraproductiv adj (more of a hindrance than a help)
Russian
1 entries- контрпродукти́вный adj (more of a hindrance than a help)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- kontraproduktivan adj (more of a hindrance than a help)
Spanish
2 entries- contraproducente adj (more of a hindrance than a help)
- contraproductivo adj (more of a hindrance than a help)
Swedish
1 entries- kontraproduktiv adj (more of a hindrance than a help)
Tamil
1 entries- எதிர் விளைவுகளைத்தான் adj (more of a hindrance than a help)
Ukrainian
1 entries- контрпродукти́вний adj (more of a hindrance than a help)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
That would be counterproductive.
Source: tatoeba (5728969)
Vigilante violence against those of a different political persuasion is counterproductive.
Source: tatoeba (5993737)
Punching those who hold beliefs you oppose is counterproductive.
Source: tatoeba (6473348)
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