What does productive mean?
Word: Productive
Part of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: Productive means producing a lot, or achieving good results that are worth the effort.
Synonyms: fruitful, fertile, worthwhile
Antonyms: useless
How do you spell productive?
Syllables: pro - duc - tive
Tricky part: The c before the t is often left out or swapped (prodcutive). The ending is tive, with an e.
Watch out for: productiv, prodective, productife, prodcutive
Memory tip: Spot the duct in the middle, as in a water duct: pro-DUCT-ive.
Productive in a sentence
Example 1: It was a productive morning: I finished all my homework before ten.
Example 2: The farmers turned the dry land into productive fields with drip irrigation.
Example 3: Our class had a productive discussion about saving water.
Fun Fact
The black soil of the Deccan, called regur, holds water well and is very productive for growing cotton.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Makeup
Only one of these words takes the prefix un to make its opposite. Choose it.
un
a) legal
b) honest
c) productive
d) patient
Show answer
c) productive. Productive becomes unproductive; the others take dis, im and il: dishonest, impatient, illegal.
Word Connection
Choose the antonym of the word productive as used in the sentence:
The weekly meeting of the eco club was short but productive.
a) busy
b) useful
c) fruitless
d) efficient
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c) fruitless. A meeting that gets nothing done is fruitless, the reverse of this one.
Mingle-Mangle
The jumbled word in the sentence hides a real word. Choose it:
Well-watered fields are far more ritopucedv than dry, stony ones.
a) conductive
b) productive
c) protective
d) predictive
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b) productive. Count the t's: the jumble has one, like productive, while protective has two; conductive has an n and predictive no o.
Spell-o-Spell
Only one of these words is spelt wrongly. Choose its meaning:
1. sucessful 2. energetic 3. productive 4. industrious
a) always working hard
b) producing a lot of good results
c) achieving what you hoped for
d) full of energy and life
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c) achieving what you hoped for. One word is short of a letter that it should double.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. A productive farm is one that ____.
a) is closed all year
b) grows plenty of crops
c) grows no crops at all
d) sells only seeds
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b) grows plenty of crops
2. Which day sounds most productive?
a) I cleaned my room, read a chapter and baked bread.
b) I watched the same film three times.
c) I lay in bed and stared at the ceiling.
d) I waited all day for a parcel that never came.
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a) I cleaned my room, read a chapter and baked bread.
