Synonyms for productive
- adjective
Most common
fertile prolific fruitful fecund constructive generative gainful
Definitions
- adj. 1
Capable of producing something, especially in abundance; fertile.
- adj. 2
Yielding good or useful results; constructive.
Related words
- Word family
- productively productiveness productivity
Example sentences
- fertile Farmers planted crops on the fertile adret slopes.
- prolific Mammeri was one of Algeria's most prolific writers.
- fruitful Their year-long stay in Germany was very fruitful.
- constructive Always be constructive when you criticize others.
- generative Everything you post on Bluesky is used to train generative AI.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| productive | falling | |
| fertile | steady | |
| prolific | steady | |
| fruitful | falling | |
| fecund | rising | |
| constructive | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- fat1
- 4 letters
- rich1
- 6 letters
- fecund
- 7 letters
- fertile2, teeming2, gainful2
- 8 letters
- original4, pregnant2, prolific3, thriving2, fruitful2
- 9 letters
- effective3, efficient3, plentiful3, causative3, luxuriant4
- 10 letters
- profitable4, generative4
- 11 letters
- efficacious4
- 12 letters
- constructive3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (fertile2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- productif
- Italiano
- produttivo
- Español
- productivo
- Deutsch
- produktiv