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productively

productively adverb: in a productive manner.

Adverb

productively (comparative more productively, superlative most productively)

  1. In a productive manner.
    • Improvements may easily be imagined which would annihilate vast portions of the productively invested wealth of individuals; such (e. g.) as a mechanical invention that superseded railways in England, or a development of trade that rendered English wheatgrowing unprofitable: and economic changes of...
    • […] Soviet ideology itself may be more productively viewed as the result of conscious attempts to explicate and rationalize assorted discursive strategies, or mechanisms, of newspeak, in much the same way as grammatical rules are invented to describe diverse linguistic practices.2002, Slava Gerovitch, “The Cold War in Code Words: The Newspeak of Soviet Science”, in From Newspeak to Cyberspeak: A History of Soviet Cybernetics, Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press, →ISBN, page...

Forms of productively

comparativemore productively
superlativemost productively

Origin of productively

From productive + -ly.

Words formed from productively

Questions about productively

What does productively mean?
Productively means in a productive manner.
What part of speech is productively?
Productively is an adverb.

Words near productively in the dictionary

  1. productising
  2. productive
  3. productive efficiencies
  4. productive efficiency
  5. productive forces
  6. productively
  7. productiveness
  8. productivism
  9. productivisms
  10. productivist
  11. productivists

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