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.
  •all (adjective)
  • unproductive.
  •barren (adjective)
  • 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.
  •desert (adjective)
  • de sert,
  • solitary,
  • most untilled,
  • de-sert,
  • un-tilled,
  • more untilled,
  • un inhabited,
  • un tilled,
  • un-inhabited.
  •dry (adjective)
  • bare.
  •fallow (adjective)
  • 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.
  •fruitless (adjective)
  • 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.
  •futile (adjective)
  • 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.
  •idle (adjective)
  • in significant,
  • idler,
  • most unhelpful,
  • un necessary,
  • un-necessary,
  • more unhelpful,
  • in-significant,
  • un-helpful,
  • irrelevant,
  • un helpful.
  •idle, nonproductive (adjective)
  • unprofitable,
  • ineffective.
  •impotent (adjective)
  • in firm,
  • forceless,
  • incapable,
  • impotent,
  • enervated,
  • helpless.
  •inactive (adjective)
  • fallow.
  •inadequate (adjective)
  • 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.
  •ineffective (adjective)
  • 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.
  •ineffective/ineffectual (adjective)
  • 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.
  •ineffectual (adjective)
  • in-effectual,
  • in effectual.
  •inefficacious (adjective)
  • in-efficacious,
  • in efficacious.
  •infertile (adjective)
  • more nonproductive,
  • non productive,
  • in fertile,
  • in-fertile,
  • most nonproductive.
  •inutile (adjective)
  • in-utile,
  • in utile.
  •lean (adjective)
  • most beanpole,
  • gangling,
  • more beanpole,
  • scraggier,
  • most shadow,
  • stilt,
  • most sylphlike,
  • stiltest,
  • lean,
  • more shadow,
  • stilter,
  • stickest,
  • more sylphlike.
  •meager (adjective)
  • scrimpest,
  • un finished,
  • meager,
  • scrimpier,
  • skimpest,
  • scrimpiest,
  • un-finished.
  •no-account (adjective)
  • Drossy.
  •no-good (adjective)
  • nogood,
  • no good.
  •piddly (adjective)
  • 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.
  •pointless (adjective)
  • in consequential,
  • around circles,
  • un interesting,
  • going nowhere,
  • in-consequential,
  • re-mote,
  • most nongermane,
  • needle haystack,
  • more purportless,
  • non germane,
  • more nongermane,
  • most purportless.
  •poor (adjective)
  • poorer.
  •slow (adjective)
  • impeded,
  • gradual,
  • unpunctual,
  • slowest,
  • long-delayed,
  • behindhand,
  • time-consuming,
  • draggy,
  • long delayed.
  •unavailing (adjective)
  • un-availing,
  • un availing.
  •unproductive (adjective)
  • childless.
  •unsuccessful (adjective)
  • finished,
  • botched,
  • tin-pot,
  • counterproductive,
  • frustrated,
  • belly up,
  • unfulfilled,
  • d.o.a.,
  • stillborn,
  • unmet,
  • sickly,
  • unrealized.
  •unusable (adjective)
  • un-usable,
  • un usable.
  •useless (adjective)
  • scrapper,
  • nonfunctional,
  • unfunctional,
  • unusuable,
  • of no use,
  • non-functional,
  • Unpurposed,
  • counter-productive.
  •vain (adjective)
  • Shucker,
  • no-win,
  • not a prayer,
  • unnotable.
  •worthless (adjective)
  • most nothing,
  • more nothing,
  • un-essential,
  • un essential.

• n.

  •
  • cash crop,
  • arable,
  • crop,
  • combine,
  • crop rotation,
  • corn,
  • cultivate,
  • cultivated,
  • crop circle.
  •
  • rich.
  •bootless (noun)
  • bootless.
  •dry (noun)
  • dry.
  •ineffectual (noun)
  • ineffectual.

• v.

  •defeated (verb)
  • unsuccessful.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • inefficient,
  • effete.
  •
  • off.
  •Other relevant words:
  • 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:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    non-productive, nonproductive.

• Forward Entailment

  • Adjective
    productive.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    unnecessary, inactive, vain, senseless, fruitful.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    counterproductive, counter-productive, fruitless, non-performing, unsuccessful, ineffective, barren, futile, unhelpful, pointless, useless, unprofitable, infertile, inefficient, meaningless, ineffectual, worthless, nonresponsive.

Antonyms for Unproductive:

• adj.

  • all
    productive.
  • idle, nonproductive
    fruitful, beneficial, profitable, helpful, worthwhile, potent, successful, useful, valuable.
  • Other antonyms:
    deadly, meaningful, usable, practical, practicable, tillable, sylvan, green, feasible, applicable, virtuous, adequate, sufficient, realizable, workable.

• Other antonyms:

  • n.
    lactating, phlegmy, sleeved, sweet, wet.