UNPRODUCTIVE

unproductive

(adjective) not producing desired results; “the talks between labor and management were unproductive”

unproductive

(adjective) not producing or capable of producing; “elimination of high-cost or unproductive industries”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

unproductive (comparative more unproductive, superlative most unproductive)

Not productive; useless; fruitless.

(linguistics, of affixes, mechanisms of word formation, etc) No longer used to produce new words (see examples).

Synonyms

• nonproductive

• unyieldly

Source: Wiktionary



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HEMLOCK

(noun) poisonous drug derived from an Eurasian plant of the genus Conium; “Socrates refused to flee and died by drinking hemlock”


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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, the largest iced coffee is 14,228.1 liters and was created by Caffé Bene (South Korea), in Yangju, South Korea, on 17 July 2014. They poured iced black Americano on the giant cup that measured 3.3 meters tall and 2.62 meters wide.

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