1. Producing or capable of producing (especially abundantly)
   "a productive collaboration"; "productive farmland"; "his productive years"
    
2. Having the ability to produce or originate
   "productive power";
   - generative
    
3. Yielding positive results
   "The productive meeting resulted in several new initiatives";
   - fruitful
    
4. (of land or soil) capable of growing abundant crops or plants
   "a productive vineyard";
   - fat, fertile, rich
    
5. (linguistics, of a suffix or prefix) applicable to a set of words to produce new words
   "'-er' is a productive suffix in English, forming agent nouns"

See also: amentaceous, amentiferous, arable, creative, cultivable, cultivatable, fecund, fertile, fruitful, fur-bearing, nut-bearing, oil-bearing, originative, profitable, prolific, rich, successful, tillable

Antonym: unproductive

Encyclopedia: Productive