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Webster 1828 Edition

, a.

Not productive; barren.

More generally, not producing large crops; not making profitable returns for labor; as unproductive land.

Not profitable; not producing profit or interest; as capital; as unproductive funds or stock.

Not efficient; not producing any effect.

unproductive ‎(comparative more unproductive, superlative most unproductive)

Not productive; useless; fruitless.
Juggling is an amusing pastime, but generally unproductive.

not productive

Japanese: 非生産的 ‎(hiseisanteki)
Maori: whiro (refers especially to soils), mūhore, tītōhea (of soil), pūweku (of crops), pūeku (of crops)
Romanian: neproductiv (ro), nefructuos (ro)
Russian: непродукти́вный (ru) ‎(neproduktívnyj), непроизводи́тельный (ru) ‎(neproizvodítelʹnyj)