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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. not producing or capable of producing;
- Example: "elimination of high-cost or unproductive industries"

2. not producing desired results;
- Example: "the talks between labor and management were unproductive"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Unproductive \Unproductive\ See productive.
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

unproductive adj 1: not producing or capable of producing; "elimination of high-cost or unproductive industries" [ant: productive] 2: not producing desired results; "the talks between labor and management were unproductive"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

57 Moby Thesaurus words for "unproductive": abortive, acarpous, arid, barren, bootless, celibate, childless, desert, desolate, drained, dried-up, dry, exhausted, fallow, fruitless, gainless, gaunt, gelded, impotent, ineffective, ineffectual, infecund, infertile, issueless, jejune, leached, menopausal, nonfertile, nonproducing, nonproductive, nonprolific, nonremunerative, otiose, profitless, rewardless, sine prole, sterile, sucked dry, teemless, unavailable, unavailing, uncultivated, unfertile, unfruitful, unplowed, unprofitable, unprolific, unremunerative, unrewarding, unsown, untilled, useless, vain, virgin, waste, wasted, without issue