productive

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
18
Words With Friends
22
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/pɹəˈdʌk.tɪv/
See all 2 pronunciations
/pɹəˈdʌk.tɪv/ · /pɹəˈdʌk.təv/

Definition of productive

7 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Capable of producing something, especially in abundance; fertile.
See all 7 definitions

adj

  1. Capable of producing something, especially in abundance; fertile.
  2. Yielding good or useful results; constructive.
  3. Of, or relating to the creation of goods or services.
  4. 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.”
  5. Of a cough, producing mucus or sputum from the respiratory tract.
  6. Of inflammation, producing new tissue.
  7. 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”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

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…

See full 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 *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Late Latin -īvus Late Latin prōductīvusbor. English productive Borrowed from Late Latin productivus, equivalent to product + -ive.

Words you can make from productive

200+ playable · top: OUTPRICED (14 pts)

Best play outpriced 14 points

8-letter words

5 words

7-letter words

29 words

6-letter words

73 words

5-letter words

92 words

Find your best play with productive

See every word you can make from a set of letters that includes productive, or browse word lists you can mine for high-scoring plays.