| Main Entry: | productive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fruitful, creative |
Synonyms: |
advantageous, beneficial, constructive, dynamic, effective, energetic, fecund, fertile, gainful, generative, gratifying, inventive, plentiful, producing, profitable, prolific, rewarding, rich, teeming, useful, valuable, vigorous, worthwhile |
Antonyms: |
fruitless, impotent, unfruitful, unproductive |
| Main Entry: | constructive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | helpful |
Synonyms: |
effective, positive, practical, productive, useful, valuable |
Antonyms: |
destructive, hurting, injurious, negative, unhelpful |
| Main Entry: | creative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | artistic, imaginative |
Synonyms: |
clever, cool*, demiurgic, deviceful, fertile, formative, gifted, hip*, ingenious, innovational, innovative, innovatory, inspired, inventive, leading-edge, original, originative, productive, prolific, stimulating, visionary, way out |
Antonyms: |
uncreative, ungifted, unimaginative, uninspired, unproductive, untalented |
| Main Entry: | dynamic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | active, vital |
Synonyms: |
activating, aggressive, changing, charismatic, coming on strong, compelling, driving, effective, electric, energetic, energizing, enterprising, forceful, forcible, go-ahead, go-getter, go-getting, highpowered, hyped-up, influential, intense, lively, lusty, magnetic, peppy*, play for keeps, play hard ball, potent, powerful, productive, progressive, red-blooded, strenuous, vehement, vigorous, vitalizing, zippy |
Antonyms: |
apathetic, boring, dull, inactive, passive, unexciting |
| Main Entry: | economic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | business-related; financial |
Synonyms: |
bread-and-butter, budgetary, commercial, fiscal, industrial, material, mercantile, monetary, money-making, pecuniary, productive, profit-making, profitable, remunerative, solvent, viable |
| 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: |
accomplishing, achieving, adequate, binding, capable, conclusive, decisive, determinative, effecting, effective, efficacious, efficient, forcible, fulfilling, in force, lawful, legal, licit, potent, powerful, practicable, productive, qualified, serviceable, sound, strong, successful, telling, useful, valid, virtuous, workable |
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, equal to, experienced, expert, familiar with, fitted, good at, good for, handy, masterly, organized, potent, powerful, practiced, productive, proficient, profitable, qualified, ready, saving, shrewd, skilled, skillful, systematic, talented, tough, useful, valuable, virtuous, 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, breedy, bringing forth, childing, fecund, feracious, flowering, flowing with milk and honey, fruitful, generative, gravid, hebetic, loamy, lush, luxuriant, plenteous, plentiful, pregnant, procreant, producing, productive, proliferant, prolific, puberal, pubescent, rank, rich, spawning, teeming, uberous, vegetative, virile, with child, yielding |
Antonyms: |
barren, fruitless, impotent, infertile, sterile, unproductive, useless |
| Main Entry: | helpful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beneficial, beneficent |
Synonyms: |
accessible, accommodating, advantageous, applicable, benevolent, bettering, caring, conducive, considerate, constructive, contributive, convenient, cooperative, crucial, effectual, efficacious, essential, favorable, fortunate, friendly, good for, important, improving, instrumental, invaluable, kind, neighborly, operative, practical, pragmatic, productive, profitable, serendipitous, serviceable, significant, suitable, supportive, symbiotic, sympathetic, timely, usable, useful, utilitarian, valuable |
Antonyms: |
disadvantageous, harmful, hurtful, injurious, unconstructive, unhelpful, useless, worthless |
| Main Entry: | imaginative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | creative, inventive |
Synonyms: |
artistic, avant-garde, blue-sky, brain wave, breaking ground, clever, dreamy, enterprising, extravagant, fanciful, fantastic, fertile, fictive, high-flown, ingenious, inspired, offbeat, original, originative, pie-in-the-sky, poetic, poetical, productive, quixotic, romantic, utopian, visionary, vivid, way out, whimsical |
Antonyms: |
dull, uncreative, unimaginative, uninventive, unresourceful |