What is another word for unproductive?
504 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ ʌnpɹədˈʌktɪv], [ ʌnpɹədˈʌktɪv], [ ʌ_n_p_ɹ_ə_d_ˈʌ_k_t_ɪ_v]Table of Contents
Similar words for unproductive:- abortive (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- barren (adjective)
- desert (adjective)
- dry (adjective)
- fallow (adjective)
- fruitless (adjective)
- futile (adjective)
- idle (adjective)
- idle, nonproductive (adjective)
- impotent (adjective)
- inactive (adjective)
- inadequate (adjective)
- ineffective (adjective)
- ineffective/ineffectual (adjective)
- ineffectual (adjective)
- inefficacious (adjective)
- infertile (adjective)
- inutile (adjective)
- lean (adjective)
- meager (adjective)
- no-account (adjective)
- no-good (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- piddly (adjective)
- pointless (adjective)
- poor (adjective)
- slow (adjective)
- unavailing (adjective)
- unproductive (adjective)
- unsuccessful (adjective)
- unusable (adjective)
- useless (adjective)
- vain (adjective)
- worthless (adjective)
- bootless (noun)
- dry (noun)
- ineffectual (noun)
- defeated (verb)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Unproductive:
adj.
•abortive (adjective)- most failed,
- mis carried,
- failed,
- un-productive,
- more failed,
- most miscarried,
- un successful,
- un-successful,
- mis-carried,
- more miscarried,
- un productive.
- most unbearing,
- most unrewarding,
- more uncultivable,
- most uncultivable,
- more unbearing,
- more infecund,
- sterile,
- more unrewarding,
- profitless,
- more profitless,
- more unfertile,
- most unfertile,
- un cultivable,
- most uninspiring,
- un bearing,
- empty,
- un-cultivable,
- de-solate,
- most profitless,
- un inspiring,
- in fecund,
- un-inspiring,
- un rewarding,
- waste,
- de solate,
- wastest,
- un-rewarding,
- in-fecund,
- un fertile,
- most infecund,
- un-fertile,
- un-bearing,
- more uninspiring.
- de sert,
- solitary,
- most untilled,
- de-sert,
- un-tilled,
- more untilled,
- un inhabited,
- un tilled,
- un-inhabited.
- bare.
- re-sting,
- more unplowed,
- un cultivated,
- more unseeded,
- un-cultivated,
- neglected,
- most unseeded,
- un-plowed,
- un developed,
- un planted,
- un-planted,
- un-used,
- un plowed,
- un-developed,
- virgin,
- inert,
- un used,
- un-seeded,
- most unplanted,
- more unplanted,
- un seeded,
- Resting,
- re sting,
- most unplowed.
- more gainless,
- un-profitable,
- most gainless,
- more unprolific,
- un prolific,
- spinning ones wheels,
- un available,
- un-available,
- spinning one wheels,
- wild goose chase,
- spinning wheels,
- un-prolific,
- most unprolific,
- un profitable.
- in sufficient,
- trifling,
- save one breath,
- save ones breath,
- insufficient,
- un needed,
- trivial,
- un-important,
- un-satisfactory,
- most resultless,
- in-sufficient,
- un-real,
- out window,
- un-needed,
- un substantial,
- more resultless,
- un important,
- save breath,
- un satisfactory,
- un-substantial,
- more impracticable.
- in significant,
- idler,
- most unhelpful,
- un necessary,
- un-necessary,
- more unhelpful,
- in-significant,
- un-helpful,
- irrelevant,
- un helpful.
- bushleague,
- un equal,
- lemon,
- in substantial,
- un-equal,
- in-considerable,
- too little,
- incomplete,
- in-substantial,
- junkest,
- in-apter,
- in-appreciable,
- in-complete,
- un qualified,
- most niggardly,
- in-adequate,
- most stinted,
- inconsiderable,
- in apter,
- glitchest,
- minus,
- junker,
- in appreciable,
- more niggardly,
- in adequate,
- in aptest,
- in-commensurate,
- glitcher,
- more stinted,
- in complete,
- in-aptest,
- in commensurate,
- most lemon,
- un-qualified,
- more lemon,
- in considerable.
- most emasculate,
- in effective,
- more slack spined,
- most slackspined,
- most slack spined,
- more emasculate,
- most slack-spined,
- slackspined,
- in-effective,
- more slack-spined,
- slack-spined,
- slack spined,
- more slackspined.
- de-feasible,
- in efficient,
- most anticlimactic,
- most defeasible,
- un-abler,
- most invertebrate,
- in vertebrate,
- more ineffective,
- in-efficient,
- in-decisive,
- more anticlimactic,
- in-nocuous,
- in nocuous,
- more defeasible,
- invertebrate,
- un abler,
- in-vertebrate,
- more neutralized,
- de feasible,
- null void,
- in operative,
- in decisive,
- anti climactic,
- un-ablest,
- more invertebrate,
- most neutralized,
- in-operative,
- un ablest,
- anti-climactic,
- null and void.
- most beanpole,
- gangling,
- more beanpole,
- scraggier,
- most shadow,
- stilt,
- most sylphlike,
- stiltest,
- lean,
- more shadow,
- stilter,
- stickest,
- more sylphlike.
- rinkydink,
- abortive,
- useless,
- of no avail,
- pointless,
- no way,
- infertile,
- inadequate,
- not effective,
- Unbearing,
- nonproductive,
- unrewarding,
- fruitless,
- inefficacious,
- futile,
- on a treadmill,
- Infecund,
- non-productive,
- uninspiring,
- unplowed,
- scrimper,
- in vain,
- skimper,
- no avail,
- no dice,
- desert,
- no purpose,
- not serious,
- not pertinent,
- to no purpose,
- scraggy,
- barren,
- unseeded,
- anticlimactic,
- idle,
- to no avail,
- save one's breath,
- no-account,
- to no effect,
- unprolific,
- Purportless,
- found wanting,
- vain,
- sticker,
- on treadmill,
- scraggiest,
- slow,
- no effect,
- defeasible,
- out the window,
- unfruitful,
- scant,
- acarpous,
- unhelpful,
- unplanted,
- sylphlike,
- untilled,
- in vicious circle,
- around in circles,
- no go,
- spinning one's wheels,
- no-good,
- unfertile,
- non-germane,
- poor,
- not enough,
- uncultivable,
- nongermane,
- unavailing,
- worthless,
- too little too late,
- niggardly,
- Gainless,
- scrimpy,
- Resultless,
- piddly,
- no fat,
- needle in haystack.
- diddliest,
- rinky-dink,
- two bit,
- diddlier,
- more rinky dink,
- twobit,
- most rinky dink,
- most rinkydink,
- more rinkydink,
- rinky dink,
- more rinky-dink,
- most rinky-dink.
- in consequential,
- around circles,
- un interesting,
- going nowhere,
- in-consequential,
- re-mote,
- most nongermane,
- needle haystack,
- more purportless,
- non germane,
- more nongermane,
- most purportless.
- impeded,
- gradual,
- unpunctual,
- slowest,
- long-delayed,
- behindhand,
- time-consuming,
- draggy,
- long delayed.
- finished,
- botched,
- tin-pot,
- counterproductive,
- frustrated,
- belly up,
- unfulfilled,
- d.o.a.,
- stillborn,
- unmet,
- sickly,
- unrealized.
n.
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- cash crop,
- arable,
- crop,
- combine,
- crop rotation,
- corn,
- cultivate,
- cultivated,
- crop circle.
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- rich.
- dry.
v.
•defeated (verb)Other synonyms:
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- inefficient,
- effete.
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- off.
- hopeless,
- sisyphean,
- hardscrabble,
- sparse,
- stark,
- silly,
- unsown,
- washed-up,
- menopausal,
- uneffective,
- waterless,
- unworkable,
- jejune,
- celibate,
- inept,
- ailing,
- meagre,
- impoverished,
- uncreative,
- obsolete,
- otiose,
- impracticable,
- ridiculous,
- drained,
- unserviceable,
- gaunt,
- purposeless,
- superficial,
- without issue,
- uneconomic,
- sucked dry,
- senseless,
- unimportant,
- unremunerative,
- fatuous,
- hors de combat,
- non-functioning,
- inactive,
- unneeded,
- sluggish,
- scanty,
- doa,
- impractical,
- quiet,
- bottom,
- slack,
- unavailable,
- absurd,
- inane,
- asinine,
- hollow,
- wasteful,
- shallow,
- disastrous,
- hang fire,
- old,
- deficient,
- inutile,
- stale,
- unnecessary,
- Teemless,
- unfortunate,
- manque,
- time-wasting,
- of no effect,
- arid,
- unusable,
- desolate,
- bungled,
- Issueless,
- stupid,
- dried-up,
- nugatory,
- inoperative,
- bony,
- nonsensical,
- dead,
- aimless,
- come to nothing,
- sleeveless,
- uneconomical,
- Leached,
- exhausted,
- preposterous,
- gelded,
- impaired,
- uncultivated,
- addled,
- incompetent,
- Unpractical,
- wasted,
- insignificant,
- Rewardless,
- unsalvageable,
- frivolous,
- meaningless.
Paraphrases for Unproductive:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
non-productive, nonproductive.
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Adjective
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Forward Entailment
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Adjective
productive.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
unnecessary, inactive, vain, senseless, fruitful.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
counterproductive, counter-productive, fruitless, non-performing, unsuccessful, ineffective, barren, futile, unhelpful, pointless, useless, unprofitable, infertile, inefficient, meaningless, ineffectual, worthless, nonresponsive.
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Adjective
Antonyms for Unproductive:
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adj.
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all
productive.
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idle, nonproductive
fruitful, beneficial, profitable, helpful, worthwhile, potent, successful, useful, valuable.
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Other antonyms:
deadly, meaningful, usable, practical, practicable, tillable, sylvan, green, feasible, applicable, virtuous, adequate, sufficient, realizable, workable.
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n.