Unproductive synonyms and antonyms

ŭn'prə-dŭk'tĭv

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empty (related)
Devoid of content; containing nothing or nobody; vacant.
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barren
That cannot produce offspring; sterile
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futile
Trifling or unimportant
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idle
Not employed or busy:
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impotent
The definition of impotent is someone or something weak, ineffective or lacking power.
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infecund
Not fecund; not fertile; barren
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infertile
Not capable of sustaining crops or vegetation:
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sterile
Producing little or no vegetation; unfruitful:
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unfruitful
Of or pertaining to not bearing fruit (usually figuratively).
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useless
Without use or possibility to be used.
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rich (related)
Highly varied, developed, or complex:
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productive (antonym)
Effective in achieving specified results; originative. Used with of :
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non-productive (related)
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wasteful (related)
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unprofitable (related)
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inefficient (related)
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unprolific
Not prolific.
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bare
Lacking the usual or appropriate covering or clothing; naked:
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desert
Of, relating to, characteristic of, or inhabiting a desert:
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Unproductive Sentence Examples

  • The meeting was unproductive of good.

  • Only about 5% was unproductive soil or moorland.

  • The great boundary rivers flow through low-lying valleys fertilized by their overflow or percolation, while a high bank leads up to the central upland, which, though naturally dry and unproductive except where irrigated by wells, has been transformed by various canal systems. This favoured region may be regarded as the granary of upper India.

  • Although 13.71% of the soil is unproductive and 32.4% is covered with forests, Salzburg is one of the principal pastoral regions of Austria.

  • In proceeding to consider the accumulation of capital, he is led to the distinction between productive and unproductive labour - the former being that which is fixed or realized in a particular object or vendible article, the latter that which is not so realized.

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