unproductive

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Synonyms: productive, reproductive, nonproductive, introductive, unpredictive, unprotective

Antonyms: productive, reproductive, nonproductive, introductive, unpredictive, unprotective

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Adjective

1. Not [[productive]]; [[useless]]; [[fruitless]].
2. {{lb|en|linguistics|of affixes, mechanisms of word formation, etc}} No longer used to [[produce]] new words ([[:Category:English unproductive suffixes|see examples]]).

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