The Collaborative International Dictionary
Productive \Pro*duc"tive\, a. [F. productif, L. productivus fit for prolongation.]
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.
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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. Producing, or able to produce, in large measure; fertile; profitable. [1913 Webster] -- Pro*duc"tive*ly, adv. -- Pro*duc"tive*ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. In a productive manner.
WordNet
adv. in a productive way; "they worked together productively for two years" [syn: fruitfully, profitably] [ant: unproductively, unproductively, unproductively]
Usage examples of "productively".
The resources must be employed productively and their productivity has to grow if the business is to survive.
It looks at how we acquire the knowledge that lets us productively and pleasurably navigate malls that offer few explicit directions.
At least now we recognize the few successful psis, and use them productively.
Consider yourself, a business traveler who can use his time productively on the journey: you're an exception to the general rule, which is that most travelers are bored silly and can't do anything about it.
We urged that our interceptive sights be set on the next significant holiday—Pentecost, just eleven days after the Feast of the Ascension—and that we try to use the intervening time as productively as possible.
Even if they’d had him breaking rocks from dawn to dusk, he probably would have been able to day-dream productively, and for all Quint’s scaremongering he’d doubted it would come to that.