unproductiveadj.

Brit.

/(ˌ)ʌnprəˈdʌktɪv/, U.S.

/ˌənprəˈdəktɪv/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: un- prefix¹, productive adj.

Etymology: < un- prefix¹ + productive adj.

a. With of. That does not produce or give rise to something specified.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > [adjective] > useless or unproductive

fruitless1340

unfructuousc1380

unfruitous1382

unfruitfula1400

barren1549

blanka1556

effectless1594

issueless1611

infructuous1615

sterile1642

thorny ground1657

unproductivea1676

infructuose1727

resultless1832

irresultive1850

unresultive1850

unprocreant1851

a1676 M. Hale Observ. Princ. Nat. Motions (1677) 254 The tumultuary agitation of the Remarker, is confused, irregular, and unproductive of such regular motion.

1757 E. Burke Philos. Enq. Sublime & Beautiful i. §21. 35 The use of the passions..cannot be..unproductive to ourselves of that noble..union of science, and admiration.

1828 N. Hawthorne Fanshawe iii. 23 A few months passed..unproductive of events that, separately, were of sufficient importance to be related.

1839 T. Carlyle Chartism x. 97 Most paralytic, uninstructive; unproductive of any comfort to one!

1902 S. van Santvoord House of Caesar i. xii. 174 Of the ten Julian intermarriages, six were unproductive of children.

1979 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts July 493/2 They [sc. artists] are largely unproductive of material which can be categorized,..evaluated or turned into pie diagrams.

2002 J. A. Williams Appalachia 139 The musters became occasions for drinking..and were notoriously unproductive of military training.

b. Without construction. That does not produce anything; esp. that fails to produce or achieve anything useful; ineffectual, useless.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > [adjective]

leera1250

unprofitablea1398

noughtc1400

inutile1484

unutilea1500

vain1578

useless1593

unuseful1604

serviceless1608

aidless1674

unproductive1713

good-for-nothing1727

nowt1790

invaluable1803

stupid1844

dud1904

puckerooed1919

1713 S. Parker tr. St. Athanasius Four Orations against Arians I. 38 There was a Time when the Infinite Fountain of Life and Wisdom was perfectly Dry and Unproductive.

1791 ‘T. Newte’ Prospects & Observ. Tour 383 Shall..the poor..[be doomed] to unproductive labour, in order to gratify barbarian ignorance and pride?

1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. xv. 250 Sampson picked up some other scholars..whose lessons were proportionally unproductive.

1870 J. H. Burton Hist. Scotl. to 1688 VII. lxxii. 73 The king..does not see the use of their attempting to hold a meeting—in Scotland it would be dangerous, in England unproductive.

1904 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 24 34 What happens to that million dollars? Does it lie dormant and unproductive?

1991 Atlantic Nov. 10/1 My boss, in giving me my last job evaluation, decided that I was unproductive, disorganized, and unable to communicate.

2009 Guardian 22 Oct. (Technology section) 3/1 For the non-gamers,..there's still something strangely distasteful about a grown man investing such time and energy into a seemingly unproductive activity.

2. Of land, crops, etc.: not significantly productive; yielding little or nothing.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > productiveness > unproductiveness > [adjective]

unbearingc825

deafc897

westyOE

wastumlessc975

wilderna1050

drya1340

gelda1350

barren1377

unfructuousa1382

poora1387

ungreenc1400

infecundc1420

farrow1494

fruitlessa1513

unfruitful1531

sterile1552

hungry1577

penurious1594

unfertile1596

infertile1598

howling1611

ungenitureda1616

arid1656

infecundous1661

ungendering1706

yeld1721

unproductive1725

infructuose1727

ungenerative1733

fallow1791

nihili-parturient1812

dowf1824

wastec1825

non-productive1830

unreproductive1836

infructuous1860

unvintaged1869

increative1877

ablastemic1881

submarginal1895

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > soil qualities > [adjective] > infertile

unbearingc825

geasonOE

unkindc1330

barren1377

unfructuousa1382

poora1387

leanc1420

exile?1440

salt1535

unfruitful?1542

sterile1572

dead1577

unlusty1580

queasy1593

heartless1594

unfertile1596

emacerated1610

sapless1655

unprolific1672

uncivil1676

ungrateful1681

worn1681

teemless1687

unproductive1725

poorish1767

ill-conditioned1796

scanty1797

rammelly1808

starve-acre1891

1725 R. Bradley Surv. Anc. Husbandry & Gardening x. 124 Many Parts of our Fields are unproductive, and appear without any Corn growing upon them.

1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 389 A female plant..produced small unproductive seeds.

1855 D. T. Ansted in Orr's Circle Sci.: Inorg. Nature 222 Unproductive portions of the fields.

1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 192 They are unproductive as yet in minerals.

1937 S. F. Armstrong Brit. Grasses (ed. 3) xv. 297 These formations give rise to very unproductive soils, and their barrenness is intensified by a low rainfall.

2006 M. Pollan Omnivore's Dilemma xi. 224 A hundred acres of productive grassland patchworked into four hundred and fifty acres of unproductive forest.

3. Linguistics. Of an affix or word element: not used, or no longer used, to form new words. Cf. productive adj. 5.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > morpheme > [adjective] > other specific types of morpheme

productive1889

non-nuclear1897

unproductive1916

replacive1948

subtractive1948

postmedial1958

1916 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 37 187 One who believes in the compositional origin of suffixes would argue that it is unfair to use as examples suffixes of such great productivity, in which gradual spread of meaning was to be expected, but that the unproductive suffixes would tell a different story.

1979 Dictionaries 1 6 One may wonder whether..synchronically unproductive suffixes like -ure..are really indispensable elements of the defining vocabulary.

2004 R. Lieber Morphology & Lexical Semantics 110 The verb-forming prefix de- is the privative correlate of..the unproductive prefix en-.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	unproductive
释义	unproductiveadj. Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnprəˈdʌktɪv/, U.S. /ˌənprəˈdəktɪv/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: un- prefix¹, productive adj. Etymology: < un- prefix¹ + productive adj. 1. a. With of. That does not produce or give rise to something specified. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > [adjective] > useless or unproductive fruitless1340 unfructuousc1380 unfruitous1382 unfruitfula1400 barren1549 blanka1556 effectless1594 issueless1611 infructuous1615 sterile1642 thorny ground1657 unproductivea1676 infructuose1727 resultless1832 irresultive1850 unresultive1850 unprocreant1851 a1676 M. Hale Observ. Princ. Nat. Motions (1677) 254 The tumultuary agitation of the Remarker, is confused, irregular, and unproductive of such regular motion. 1757 E. Burke Philos. Enq. Sublime & Beautiful i. §21. 35 The use of the passions..cannot be..unproductive to ourselves of that noble..union of science, and admiration. 1828 N. Hawthorne Fanshawe iii. 23 A few months passed..unproductive of events that, separately, were of sufficient importance to be related. 1839 T. Carlyle Chartism x. 97 Most paralytic, uninstructive; unproductive of any comfort to one! 1902 S. van Santvoord House of Caesar i. xii. 174 Of the ten Julian intermarriages, six were unproductive of children. 1979 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts July 493/2 They [sc. artists] are largely unproductive of material which can be categorized,..evaluated or turned into pie diagrams. 2002 J. A. Williams Appalachia 139 The musters became occasions for drinking..and were notoriously unproductive of military training. b. Without construction. That does not produce anything; esp. that fails to produce or achieve anything useful; ineffectual, useless. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > [adjective] leera1250 unprofitablea1398 noughtc1400 inutile1484 unutilea1500 vain1578 useless1593 unuseful1604 serviceless1608 aidless1674 unproductive1713 good-for-nothing1727 nowt1790 invaluable1803 stupid1844 dud1904 puckerooed1919 1713 S. Parker tr. St. Athanasius Four Orations against Arians I. 38 There was a Time when the Infinite Fountain of Life and Wisdom was perfectly Dry and Unproductive. 1791 ‘T. Newte’ Prospects & Observ. Tour 383 Shall..the poor..[be doomed] to unproductive labour, in order to gratify barbarian ignorance and pride? 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. xv. 250 Sampson picked up some other scholars..whose lessons were proportionally unproductive. 1870 J. H. Burton Hist. Scotl. to 1688 VII. lxxii. 73 The king..does not see the use of their attempting to hold a meeting—in Scotland it would be dangerous, in England unproductive. 1904 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 24 34 What happens to that million dollars? Does it lie dormant and unproductive? 1991 Atlantic Nov. 10/1 My boss, in giving me my last job evaluation, decided that I was unproductive, disorganized, and unable to communicate. 2009 Guardian 22 Oct. (Technology section) 3/1 For the non-gamers,..there's still something strangely distasteful about a grown man investing such time and energy into a seemingly unproductive activity. 2. Of land, crops, etc.: not significantly productive; yielding little or nothing. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > productiveness > unproductiveness > [adjective] unbearingc825 deafc897 westyOE wastumlessc975 wilderna1050 drya1340 gelda1350 barren1377 unfructuousa1382 poora1387 ungreenc1400 infecundc1420 farrow1494 fruitlessa1513 unfruitful1531 sterile1552 hungry1577 penurious1594 unfertile1596 infertile1598 howling1611 ungenitureda1616 arid1656 infecundous1661 ungendering1706 yeld1721 unproductive1725 infructuose1727 ungenerative1733 fallow1791 nihili-parturient1812 dowf1824 wastec1825 non-productive1830 unreproductive1836 infructuous1860 unvintaged1869 increative1877 ablastemic1881 submarginal1895 the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > soil qualities > [adjective] > infertile unbearingc825 geasonOE unkindc1330 barren1377 unfructuousa1382 poora1387 leanc1420 exile?1440 salt1535 unfruitful?1542 sterile1572 dead1577 unlusty1580 queasy1593 heartless1594 unfertile1596 emacerated1610 sapless1655 unprolific1672 uncivil1676 ungrateful1681 worn1681 teemless1687 unproductive1725 poorish1767 ill-conditioned1796 scanty1797 rammelly1808 starve-acre1891 1725 R. Bradley Surv. Anc. Husbandry & Gardening x. 124 Many Parts of our Fields are unproductive, and appear without any Corn growing upon them. 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 389 A female plant..produced small unproductive seeds. 1855 D. T. Ansted in Orr's Circle Sci.: Inorg. Nature 222 Unproductive portions of the fields. 1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 192 They are unproductive as yet in minerals. 1937 S. F. Armstrong Brit. Grasses (ed. 3) xv. 297 These formations give rise to very unproductive soils, and their barrenness is intensified by a low rainfall. 2006 M. Pollan Omnivore's Dilemma xi. 224 A hundred acres of productive grassland patchworked into four hundred and fifty acres of unproductive forest. 3. Linguistics. Of an affix or word element: not used, or no longer used, to form new words. Cf. productive adj. 5. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > morpheme > [adjective] > other specific types of morpheme productive1889 non-nuclear1897 unproductive1916 replacive1948 subtractive1948 postmedial1958 1916 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 37 187 One who believes in the compositional origin of suffixes would argue that it is unfair to use as examples suffixes of such great productivity, in which gradual spread of meaning was to be expected, but that the unproductive suffixes would tell a different story. 1979 Dictionaries 1 6 One may wonder whether..synchronically unproductive suffixes like -ure..are really indispensable elements of the defining vocabulary. 2004 R. Lieber Morphology & Lexical Semantics 110 The verb-forming prefix de- is the privative correlate of..the unproductive prefix en-. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.a1676
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