Usually means: Hinders rather than helps progress.
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  1. counterproductive: Merriam-Webster
  2. counterproductive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. counterproductive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. counterproductive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. counterproductive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Counterproductive, counterproductive: Wordnik
  7. counterproductive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. counterproductive: Wiktionary
  9. counterproductive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. counterproductive: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. counterproductive: Dictionary.com
  12. counterproductive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. counterproductive: Rhymezone
  14. counterproductive: FreeDictionary.org
  15. counterproductive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. counterproductive: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. counterproductive: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Counterproductive: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  More of a hindrance than a help.

Similar:
harmful, hindersome, hinderable, deleterious, detrimental, prejudicial, deletorious, antipositional, unsavory, hurtful, more...

Opposite:
productive, helpful, useful

Types:
self-defeating, harmful, detrimental, negative, injurious, more...

Phrases:
Counterproductive work behavior, counterproductive actions, unhelpful bad counterproductive, more...

Colors:
    gray,     dull brown,     murky green,     muddy yellow,     faded orange, more...



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Similar:
harmful, hindersome, hinderable, deleterious, detrimental, prejudicial, deletorious, antipositional, unsavory, hurtful, more...

Opposite:
productive, helpful, useful

Types:
self-defeating, harmful, detrimental, negative, injurious, more...

Phrases:
Counterproductive work behavior, counterproductive actions, unhelpful bad counterproductive, more...

Colors:
    gray,     dull brown,     murky green,     muddy yellow,     faded orange, more...



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