Category:Productive

Pro*duc"tive, a. Etym: [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.