Usually means: Not yielding results or benefits.
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  1. unproductive: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. unproductive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. unproductive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. unproductive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. unproductive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Unproductive, unproductive: Wordnik
  7. unproductive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. unproductive: Wiktionary
  9. unproductive: Dictionary.com
  10. unproductive: Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. unproductive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. unproductive: Rhymezone
  13. unproductive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. unproductive: Free Dictionary
  15. unproductive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. unproductive: Dictionary/thesaurus
  17. unproductive: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. unproductive: Legal dictionary

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adjective:  Not productive; useless; fruitless.
adjective:  (linguistics, of affixes, mechanisms of word formation, etc) No longer used to produce new words (see examples).

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