unproductive
adjEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- 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 English unproductive From un- + productive.
- derived from -īvus Late Latin prōductīvusbor
- derived from *per-der✻
Definitions
Not productive
Not productive; useless; fruitless.
- Juggling is an amusing pastime, but generally unproductive.
No longer used to produce new words (see examples).
The neighborhood
- synonymnonproductive
- synonymunyieldly
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at unproductive. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at unproductive. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at unproductive
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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