Pro‐duc″tive (?), a. [F. productif, L. productivus fit for prolongation.]
1. Having the quality or power of producing; yielding or furnishing results; as, productive soil; productive enterprises; productive labor, that which increases the number or amount of products.
2. Bringing into being; causing to exist; producing; originative; as, an age productive of great men; a spirit productive of heroic achievements.
And kindle with thy own productive fire. Dryden.
This is turning nobility into a principle of virtue, and making it productive of merit. Spectator.
3. Producing, or able to produce, in large measure; fertile; profitable.
— Pro‐duc″tive‐ly, adv. — Pro‐duc″tive‐ness, n.