Tobacco smoke is productive of cancer.
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Productive
//pɹəˈdʌk.tɪv//
Synonyms for "productive" (160 found)
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Closest matches (32)
Strong matches (48)
Related words (80)
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Adjective(1 words)
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Antonyms
7 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
4 entriesderived
16 entriesderived from
1 entrieshas context
3 entriesrelated to
29 entriesShowing 16 of 29 words.
similar
27 entriesShowing 16 of 27 words.
Translations
82 translations across 33 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- γόνιμος adj (yielding good or useful results; constructive)
Bulgarian
4 entries- продуктивен adj (yielding good or useful results; constructive)
- продуктивен adj (linguistics: consistently applicable to any of an open set of words)
- производителен adj (capable of producing something)
- производителен adj (of, or relating to the creation of goods or services)
Catalan
2 entries- productiu adj (capable of producing something)
- productiu adj (yielding good or useful results; constructive)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 生產的 /生产的 adj (capable of producing something)
- 能產的 /能产的 adj (linguistics: consistently applicable to any of an open set of words)
Czech
1 entries- produktivní adj (capable of producing something)
Danish
2 entries- produktiv adj (yielding good or useful results; constructive)
- produktiv adj (of, or relating to the creation of goods or services)
Dutch
1 entries- productief adj (capable of producing something)
Esperanto
1 entries- produktiva adj (capable of producing something)
Estonian
3 entries- produktiivne adj (capable of producing something)
- tootlik adj (of, or relating to the creation of goods or services)
- viljakas adj (capable of producing something)
Finnish
4 entries- hedelmällinen adj (capable of producing something)
- limaa irrottava adj (medicine: producing mucus or sputum)
- limainen adj (medicine: producing mucus or sputum)
- produktiivinen adj (linguistics: consistently applicable to any of an open set of words)
French
1 entries- productif adj (capable of producing something)
Galician
1 entries- produtivo adj (capable of producing something)
Georgian
2 entries- კონსტრუქციული adj (yielding good or useful results; constructive)
- პროდუქტიული adj (yielding good or useful results; constructive)
German
4 entries- konstruktiv adj (yielding good or useful results; constructive)
- produktiv adj (capable of producing something)
- produktiv adj (linguistics: consistently applicable to any of an open set of words)
- produktiv adj (in set theory)
Hungarian
3 entries- produktív adj (capable of producing something)
- termelékeny adj (capable of producing something)
- termékeny adj (linguistics: consistently applicable to any of an open set of words)
Irish
2 entries- bisiúil adj (capable of producing something)
- torthúil adj (capable of producing something)
Italian
1 entries- produttivo adj (capable of producing something)
Japanese
2 entries- 建設的 adj (yielding good or useful results; constructive)
- 生産的 adj (capable of producing something)
Latin
1 entries- conficiens adj (yielding good or useful results; constructive)
Latvian
4 entries- auglīgs adj (capable of producing something)
- produktīvs adj (capable of producing something)
- produktīvs adj (yielding good or useful results; constructive)
- ražīgs adj (capable of producing something)
Malayalam
2 entries- ഉത്പാദകമായ adj (capable of producing something)
- ഉത്പാദകമായ adj (yielding good or useful results; constructive)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- produktiv adj (capable of producing something)
- produktiv adj (yielding good or useful results; constructive)
- produktiv adj (of, or relating to the creation of goods or services)
- produktiv adj (linguistics: consistently applicable to any of an open set of words)
Norwegian Nynorsk
4 entries- produktiv adj (capable of producing something)
- produktiv adj (yielding good or useful results; constructive)
- produktiv adj (of, or relating to the creation of goods or services)
- produktiv adj (linguistics: consistently applicable to any of an open set of words)
Plautdietsch
2 entries- fruchtboa adj (capable of producing something)
- fruchtboa adj (yielding good or useful results; constructive)
Polish
1 entries- produktywny adj (yielding good or useful results; constructive)
Portuguese
1 entries- produtivo adj (capable of producing something)
Romanian
3 entries- fertil adj (capable of producing something)
- productiv adj (capable of producing something)
- rodnic adj (capable of producing something)
Russian
4 entries- конструкти́вный adj (yielding good or useful results; constructive)
- продукти́вный adj (capable of producing something)
- продукти́вный adj (yielding good or useful results; constructive)
- производи́тельный adj (capable of producing something)
Spanish
2 entries- productivo adj (capable of producing something)
- productivo adj (yielding good or useful results; constructive)
Tagalog
2 entries- malalangin adj (capable of producing something)
- malalangin adj (of, or relating to the creation of goods or services)
Turkish
2 entries- üretken adj (capable of producing something)
- üretken adj (linguistics: consistently applicable to any of an open set of words)
Ukrainian
1 entries- продукти́вний adj (yielding good or useful results; constructive)
Vietnamese
1 entries- năng sản adj (linguistics: consistently applicable to any of an open set of words)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
The author is seventy, but he's no less productive than he was twenty years ago.
Source: tatoeba (47788)
This factory's productive capacity is 250 cars a week.
Source: tatoeba (59308)
Americans spend most of their lives working, being productive.
Source: tatoeba (67471)
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