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unproductive

adjective

Not productive; useless; fruitless.

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Word length
12
Starts with
U
Ends with
E
Contains
NP
Scrabble score
20

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adjective

  1. Not productive; useless; fruitless.

    “Juggling is an amusing pastime, but generally unproductive.”

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

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Juggling is an amusing pastime, but generally unproductive.

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