Words that rhyme with productive

  • conductive
    adj 1: having the quality or power of conducting heat or electricity or sound; exhibiting conductivity [ant: non- conducting, nonconducting, nonconductive]
  • constructive
    adj 1: constructing or tending to construct or improve or promote development; "constructive criticism"; "a constructive attitude"; "a constructive philosophy"; "constructive permission" [ant: destructive] 2: emphasizing what is laudable or hopeful or to the good; "constructive criticism"
  • counterproductive
    adj 1: tending to hinder the achievement of a goal
  • deductive
    adj 1: relating to logical deduction; "deductive reasoning" 2: involving inferences from general principles [ant: inductive]
  • destructive
    adj 1: causing destruction or much damage; "a policy that is destructive to the economy"; "destructive criticism" [ant: constructive]
  • inductive
    adj 1: arising from inductance; "inductive reactance" 2: of reasoning; proceeding from particular facts to a general conclusion; "inductive reasoning" [ant: deductive] 3: inducing or influencing; leading on; "inductive to the sin of Eve"- John Milton [syn: inductive, inducive]
  • instructive
    adj 1: serving to instruct or enlighten or inform [syn: instructive, informative] [ant: uninstructive]
  • obstructive
    adj 1: preventing movement; "the clogging crowds of revelers overflowing into the street" [syn: clogging, hindering, impeding, obstructive]
  • photoconductive
    adj 1: of or relating to photoconductivity; "selenium is a photoconductive substance"
  • reconstructive
    adj 1: helping to restore to good condition; "reconstructive surgery"; "rehabilitative exercises" [syn: reconstructive, rehabilitative]
  • reductive
    adj 1: characterized by or causing diminution or curtailment; "their views of life were reductive and depreciatory" - R.H.Rovere
  • reproductive
    adj 1: producing new life or offspring; "the reproductive potential of a species is its relative capacity to reproduce itself under optimal conditions"; "the reproductive or generative organs" [syn: generative, procreative, reproductive]
  • seductive
    adj 1: tending to entice into a desired action or state [ant: unseductive]
  • 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"

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