unproductive

Etymology

un- + productive

adj

  1. Not productive; useless; fruitless.
    Juggling is an amusing pastime, but generally unproductive.
  2. (linguistics, of affixes, mechanisms of word formation, etc) No longer used to produce new words (see examples).

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