productive Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective producing or capable of producing (especially abundantly)
    • productive farmland
    • his productive years
    • a productive collaboration
  2. adjective having the ability to produce or originate
    generative.
    • generative power
    • generative forces
  3. adjective satellite yielding positive results
  4. adjective satellite marked by great fruitfulness
    fertile; rich; fat.
    • fertile farmland
    • a fat land
    • a productive vineyard
    • rich soil

WordNet

Pro*duc"tive adjective
Etymology
F. productif, L. productivus fit for prolongation.
Definitions
  1. Having the quality or power of producing; yielding or furnishing results; as, productive soil; productive enterprises; productive labor, that which increases the number or amount of products.
  2. Bringing into being; causing to exist; producing; originative; as, an age productive of great men; a spirit productive of heroic achievements.
    And kindle with thy own productive fire. Dryden.
    This is turning nobility into a principle of virtue, and making it productive of merit. Spectator.
  3. Producing, or able to produce, in large measure; fertile; profitable. -- Pro*duc"tive*ly, adv. -- Pro*duc"tive*ness, n.

Webster 1913