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| Main Entry: | productive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fruitful, creative |
| Synonyms: | advantageous, beneficial, constructive, dynamic, effective, energetic, fecund, fertile, gainful, gratifying, inventive, plentiful, producing, profitable, prolific, rewarding, rich, teeming, useful, valuable, vigorous, worthwhile, generative |
| Antonyms: | fruitless, impotent, unfruitful, unproductive |
| Main Entry: | constructive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | helpful |
| Synonyms: | effective, positive, practical, productive, useful, valuable |
| Antonyms: | destructive, injurious, negative, hurting, unhelpful |
| Main Entry: | creative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | artistic, imaginative |
| Synonyms: | clever, cool*, fertile, formative, gifted, hip*, ingenious, innovative, inspired, inventive, original, productive, prolific, stimulating, visionary, way out, demiurgic, deviceful, innovational, innovatory, leading-edge, originative |
| Antonyms: | unimaginative, uninspired, unproductive, uncreative, ungifted, untalented |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dynamic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | active, vital |
| Synonyms: | aggressive, changing, charismatic, compelling, driving, effective, electric, energetic, enterprising, forceful, forcible, go-ahead*, influential, intense, lively, lusty, magnetic, peppy*, potent, powerful, productive, progressive, strenuous, vehement, vigorous, zippy*, activating, coming on strong, energizing, go-getter, go-getting, highpowered, hyped-up, play for keeps, play hard ball, red-blooded*, vitalizing |
| Antonyms: | apathetic, boring, dull, inactive, passive, unexciting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | economic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | business-related; financial |
| Synonyms: | commercial, fiscal, industrial, material, monetary, pecuniary, productive, profitable, remunerative, solvent, viable, bread-and-butter, budgetary, mercantile, money-making, profit-making |
| Notes: | economic means 'pertaining to the production and use of income' and economical is 'avoiding waste, being careful of resources' |
| Main Entry: | effectual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | influential; authoritative |
| Synonyms: | adequate, binding, capable, conclusive, decisive, effective, efficacious, efficient, forcible, lawful, legal, licit, potent, powerful, practicable, productive, qualified, serviceable, sound, strong, successful, telling, useful, valid, virtuous, workable, accomplishing, achieving, determinative, effecting, fulfilling, in force |
| Antonyms: | impotent, incapable, ineffectual, unproductive, unsuccessful, useless, weak |
| Main Entry: | efficient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | adept, effective |
| Synonyms: | able, accomplished, active, adapted, adequate, apt, businesslike, capable, clever, competent, conducive, decisive, deft, dynamic, economic, economical, effectual, efficacious, energetic, experienced, expert, fitted, handy, masterly, organized, potent, powerful, practiced, productive, proficient, profitable, qualified, ready, saving, shrewd, skilled, skillful, systematic, talented, tough, useful, valuable, virtuous, equal to, familiar with, good at, good for, well-organized |
| Antonyms: | helpless, impotent, incompetent, ineffective, inefficient, powerless, unable, weak |
| Main Entry: | fertile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ready to bear, produce |
| Synonyms: | abundant, arable, bearing, black, bountiful, breeding, fecund, flowering, fruitful, lush, luxuriant, plentiful, pregnant, producing, productive, prolific, rank, rich, teeming, virile, yielding, breedy, bringing forth, childing, feracious, flowing with milk and honey, generative, gravid, hebetic, loamy, plenteous, procreant, proliferant, puberal, pubescent, spawning, uberous, vegetative, with child |
| Antonyms: | barren, fruitless, impotent, infertile, sterile, unproductive, useless |
| Main Entry: | helpful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beneficial, beneficent |
| Synonyms: | accessible, accommodating, advantageous, applicable, benevolent, conducive, considerate, constructive, convenient, cooperative, crucial, effectual, efficacious, essential, favorable, fortunate, friendly, important, improving, instrumental, invaluable, kind, neighborly, operative, practical, pragmatic, productive, profitable, serviceable, significant, suitable, sympathetic, timely, usable, useful, utilitarian, valuable, bettering, caring, contributive, good for, serendipitous, supportive, symbiotic |
| Antonyms: | disadvantageous, harmful, hurtful, injurious, useless, worthless, unconstructive, unhelpful |
| Main Entry: | imaginative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | creative, inventive |
| Synonyms: | artistic, avant-garde, clever, dreamy, enterprising, extravagant, fanciful, fantastic, fertile, high-flown*, ingenious, inspired, offbeat, original, poetic, productive, quixotic, romantic, utopian, visionary, vivid, way out, whimsical, blue-sky, brain wave, breaking ground, fictive, originative, pie-in-the-sky, poetical |
| Antonyms: | dull, unimaginative, uncreative, uninventive, unresourceful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | industrious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hardworking |
| Synonyms: | active, assiduous, burning, busy, conscientious, diligent, dynamic, eager, energetic, grind*, intent, involved, jumping, laborious, operose, perky*, persevering, persistent, productive, purposeful, sedulous, spirited, steady, tireless, zealous, ball of fire, in full swing, on the go, plugging, psyched up on |
| Antonyms: | idle, inactive, indolent, lackadaisical, lazy, lethargic, slack, unemployed, unproductive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inventive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | creative |
| Synonyms: | adroit, artistic, avant-garde, constructive, fertile, formative, fruitful, gifted, imaginative, ingenious, innovative, inspired, original, productive, resourceful, teeming, breaking new ground, causative, demiurgic, deviceful, forgetive, innovational, innovatory, originative, poetical |
| Antonyms: | stolen, unoriginal, uncreative, uninventive |
| Main Entry: | luxuriant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | profuse, plush |
| Synonyms: | abundant, ample, copious, deluxe, dense, elaborate, excessive, extravagant, exuberant, fancy, fecund, fertile, flamboyant, flourishing, fruitful, lavish, luscious, lush, opulent, overflowing, palatial, plentiful, prodigal, productive, prolific, rampant, rank, rich, riotous, sumptuous, teeming, thriving, plenteous, profusive, superabundant |
| Antonyms: | barren, plain, poor |
| Main Entry: | profitable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | advantageous; money-making |
| Synonyms: | assisting, beneficial, commercial, conducive, cost-effective, effective, effectual, favorable, fruitful, gainful, good, in the black, instrumental, lucrative, practical, pragmatic, productive, remunerative, rewarding, serviceable, successful, sweet*, useful, valuable, worthwhile, contributive, going, paid off, paying, paying well, self-sustaining, sustaining, well-paying |
| Antonyms: | disadvantageous, unprofitable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rewarding |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beneficial, pleasing |
| Synonyms: | advantageous, fruitful, gainful, gratifying, productive, profitable, remunerative, satisfying, valuable, worthwhile, edifying, fulfilling |
| Antonyms: | troubling, upsetting |
| Main Entry: | worthwhile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | helpful |
| Synonyms: | advantageous, beneficial, constructive, estimable, excellent, gainful, good, important, invaluable, justifiable, lucrative, meritorious, priceless, productive, profitable, remunerative, rewarding, serviceable, useful, valuable, worthy, money-making, paying |
| Antonyms: | valueless, worthless, unhelpful |
| Main Entry: | plentiful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abundant |
| Synonyms: | abounding, ample, appreciable, bountiful, chock-full, competent, complete, copious, enough, excessive, extravagant, exuberant, fertile, flowing, flush, fruitful, full, fulsome, generous, improvident, inexhaustible, infinite, large, lavish, liberal, lush, luxuriant, overflowing, plenty, prodigal, productive, profuse, prolific, replete, rife, sufficient, superfluous, swimming, teeming, unlimited, bounteous, bumper, lousy with, no end, plenteous, superabundant, swarming, well-provided |
| Antonyms: | meager, scarce |
| Main Entry: | producing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bearing |
| Synonyms: | fertile, productive, ready, bringing forth, generating |
| Main Entry: | pregnant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | carrying developing offspring within the body |
| Synonyms: | abundant, enceinte, expectant, expecting*, fecund, fertile, fraught, fruitful, heavy, hopeful, productive, prolific, replete, teeming, anticipating, carrying a child, gestating, gravid, in family way, parous, parturient, preggers, with child |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | original |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fresh, new |
| Synonyms: | creative, fertile, formative, imaginative, ingenious, innovative, inspiring, inventive, novel, productive, quick, ready, resourceful, seminal, sensitive, unconventional, unprecedented, untried, unusual, avant garde, breaking new ground, causal, causative, conceiving, demiurgic, devising, envisioning, generative, innovational, innovatory, originative |
| Antonyms: | borrowed, hackneyed, old, used, worn |
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