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
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).
• nonproductive
• unyieldly
Source: Wiktionary
24 December 2024
(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
