Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

productive

/pɹəˈdʌk.tɪv/ adjective

  1. adjective Capable of producing something, especially in abundance; fertile.
  2. adjective Yielding good or useful results; constructive.
  3. adjective Of, or relating to the creation of goods or services.
  4. adjective (linguistics, of an affix or word construction rule) Consistently applicable to any of an open set of words.
  5. adjective (medicine) Of a cough, producing mucus or sputum from the respiratory tract.
  6. adjective (medicine) Of inflammation, producing new tissue.
  7. adjective (set theory) A type of set of natural numbers, related to mathematical logic; a set S is productive if there exists a total recursive function f such that ∀x∈ℕ,~~W_x⊆S⇒f(x)∈A⧵W_x, where W_x is a recursive function whose Gödel number is x. “a productive set”

Synonyms

prolific pregnant batful luxuriant fertile fruitful thriving yielding yieldly voluminous generative fat rich

Antonyms

baneful barren counterproductive counter-productive destructive nonproductive non-productive ruinous unproductive fruitless sterile

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin productivus, equivalent to product + -ive.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective 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. adjective Bringing into being; causing to exist; producing; originative; as, an age productive of great men; a spirit productive of heroic achievements.

Etymology [F. productif, L. productivus fit for prolongation.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “productive”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “productive” (best matches first).

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