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improductive
improductive
English
Adjective
improductive (comparative more improductive, superlative most improductive)
- (rare, nonstandard) unproductive
- 1816, The Monthly Magazine
- But, as the principal of the loan, or, if you will, the capital lent, is generally consumed in consequence of this transfer, public loans produce an improductive consumption, a destruction of capital.
- 1816, The Monthly Magazine
Usage notes
- Generally an error by non-native speakers.