I believe it would be unproductive with regard to the present recovery.
Source: tatoeba (239560)
Unproductive
//ˌʌn.pɹəˈdʌk.tɪv//
Synonyms for "unproductive" (72 found)
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Closest matches (15)
Strong matches (21)
Related words (36)
Related word relations
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Antonyms
1 entriesSynonyms
2 entriesderived
2 entriesderived from
1 entrieshas context
1 entriesrelated to
7 entriessimilar
19 entriesShowing 16 of 19 words.
Translations
29 translations across 17 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- joprodhues adj (not productive)
Catalan
1 entries- improductiu adj (not productive)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 無生產的 /无生产的 adj (not productive)
Czech
1 entries- neproduktivní adj (not productive)
Dutch
2 entries- improductief adj (not productive)
- onproductief adj (not productive)
Finnish
1 entries- tuottamaton adj (not productive)
French
1 entries- improductif adj (not productive)
German
1 entries- unproduktiv adj (not productive)
Hungarian
4 entries- gyümölcstelen adj (not productive)
- improduktív adj (not productive)
- meddő adj (not productive)
- szaporátlan adj (not productive)
Italian
1 entries- improduttivo adj (not productive)
Japanese
1 entries- 非生産的 adj (not productive)
Māori
4 entries- mūhore adj (not productive)
- pūeku adj (not productive)
- pūweku adj (not productive)
- tītōhea adj (not productive)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- fruchtlooss adj (not productive)
Polish
2 entries- bezproduktywny adj (not productive)
- nieproduktywny adj (not productive)
Portuguese
1 entries- improdutivo adj (not productive)
Romanian
2 entries- nefructuos adj (not productive)
- neproductiv adj (not productive)
Russian
2 entries- непродукти́вный adj (not productive)
- непроизводи́тельный adj (not productive)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
The retired often feel that they are useless and unproductive.
Source: tatoeba (275374)
These German translators are so unproductive, Tatoeba should delocalise production to Asia!
Source: tatoeba (1081402)
This is entirely unproductive.
Source: tatoeba (5731931)
Showing 4 of 11 available sentences.
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