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productive.

Capable of producing something, especially in abundance; fertile.

10 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj/pɹəˈdʌk.tɪv//pɹəˈdʌk.təv/
  1. Capable of producing something, especially in abundance; fertile.

  2. Yielding good or useful results; constructive.

  3. Of, or relating to the creation of goods or services.

  4. Consistently applicable to any of an open set of words.

  5. Of a cough, producing mucus or sputum from the respiratory tract.

  6. Of inflammation, producing new tissue.

  7. A type of set of natural numbers, related to mathematical logic; a set S is productive if there exists a total recursive function f such that ∀x∈ℕ,~~W_x⊆S⇒f(x)∈A⧵W_x, where W_x is a recursive function whose Gödel number is x.

    a productive set
Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *pér Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *pró Proto-Indo-European *pro- Proto-Italic *pro- Latin prō- Proto-Indo-European *dewk- Proto-Indo-European *déwkti Proto-Italic *doukō Latin dūcō Latin prōdūcō Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Late Latin prōductīvusbor. English productive Borrowed from Late Latin productivus, equivalent to product + -ive.

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