2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Productive \Pro*duc"tive\, a. [F. productif L. productivus fit
for prolongation.]
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
productively
adv : in a productive way "they worked together productively for
two years" [syn: {fruitfully}, {profitably}] [ant: {unproductively},
{unproductively}, {unproductively}]
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