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Dictionary quizzes to help you remember the meaning

productive

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Source Word

productive

IPA(Pronunciation)

/pɹəˈdʌk.tɪv/

of an affix or word construction rule

Japanese Meaning

何かを大量にまたは効率的に生み出す能力がある。 / 良い結果や有用な成果をもたらす性質がある。 / 商品の生産やサービスの創出に関する、またはそれに関わる。

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After organizing her schedule and eliminating distractions, she had the most productive afternoon of her career.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

スケジュールを整理し、気を散らすものを取り除いた後、彼女はキャリアで最も実り多い午後を過ごした。

Sense（1）

Capable of producing something, especially in abundance; fertile.

Sense（2）

Yielding good or useful results; constructive.

Sense（3）

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

Sense（4）

(linguistics, of an affix or word construction rule) Consistently applicable to any of an open set of words.

Moreover, this relationship is a productive one, in the sense that when new Adjectives are created (e.g. ginormous concocted out of gigantic and enormous), then the corresponding Adverb form (in this case ginormously) can also be used. And in those exceptional cases where Adverbs do not end in -ly, they generally have the same form as the corresponding Adjective, as with hard, fast, etc.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

Sense（5）

(medicine) Of a cough, producing mucus or sputum from the respiratory tract.

Sense（6）

(medicine) Of inflammation, producing new tissue.

Sense（7）

(set theory) A type of set of natural numbers, related to mathematical logic.

a productive set

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

more productive

（ comparative ）

most productive

（ superlative ）

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