productive

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   producing or capable of producing, especially abundantly

   The productive farmland had a great harvest last year.

2. 2
   adj

   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.

3. 3
   adj

   A type of set of natural numbers, related to mathematical logic; a set S is productive if there exists a total recursive function f such that ∀x∈ℕ,~~W_x⊆S⇒f(x)∈A⧵W_x, where W_x is a recursive function whose Gödel number is x.

   a productive set

4. 4
   adj

   marked by great fruitfulness

5. 5
   adj

   having the ability to produce or originate

6. 6
   adj

   yielding positive results

7. 7
   adj

   Capable of producing something, especially in abundance; fertile.

8. 8
   adj

   Yielding good or useful results; constructive.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *pér Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *pró Proto-Indo-European *pro- Proto-Italic *pro- Late Latin prō- Proto-Indo-European *dewk- Proto-Indo-European *déwkti Proto-Italic *doukō Late Latin dūcō Late Latin prōdūcō Proto-Indo-European *-wósder. Late Latin -īvus Late Latin prōductīvusbor. English productive Borrowed from Late Latin productivus, equivalent to product + -ive.