What does it mean productively? The answer to the question is quite simple. The reader will believe it or not, but one meaning of the adverb refers to animal husbandry. Consider them all.
Meaning
“Productive” is a buzzword. It seems to be borrowed, but it is unlikely that a new wave of Anglicisms brought it to us. The explanatory dictionary does not immediately answer the question of what it means to be productive, but refers to a relative adjective. Therefore, it is necessary to illuminate the values of the latter:
- Productive, fruitful. For example: "I had an extremely fruitful, productive day today."
- Related to livestock. The individual that gives the product. "This cow is extremely fruitful."
- In grammar. Something that helps to form new words (units of language). For example: "Fruitful prefix."
Of course, we are primarily interested in the first meaning. For the masses, both animal husbandry and grammar do not cause an agitated response. Another thing is the importance of the first. Now you can easily and freely answer the question of what is productive. The latter is a synonym for “fruitful”. Some action has produced fruits, results, and these results are positive, at least for the side that evaluates. And so, of course, there are negative productive results.
Synonyms
We cut off from words-substitutions those that are not useful to the reader, in everyday use. So here is the list:
- sensibly;
- saturated;
- fruitfully;
- useful;
- efficiently;
- shock;
- effectively.
It is noteworthy that the list ends, perhaps, with the beloved word of the era. People are now required above all to be effective. True, it is good that this is true only in relation to work. In the professional activity of almost every specialist there are numbers, norms, parameters. Try to ask him what it means to be productive, he will probably answer you after some thought.
Erich Fromm and the Antonyms of Productivity
A remarkable thinker is known for his typology of social character. Some people destroy life and themselves, while others save life in all its forms. The former have a “necrophilic” type of character, while others have a “productive” one. But it seems to us that in this case, necrophilia is not a suitable antonym of the object of study. We use another concept from the heritage of the great philosopher and psychologist - destructiveness. You can still go a simpler way and add to the adverb “productively” a negative particle “not”, but this is an obvious option. Antonyms must still give diversity to man.
But now we can calmly answer the question of what a productive day means. This is a day that was not in vain. Benefit criteria, as the reader understands, each has its own. If a high school student read the additional story of L. N. Tolstoy himself, and the office worker did a little more work or, for example, spent time with his family on a day off, then the time was not in vain. On the other hand, if a teenager watched cartoons for days on end or hung on a social network, then such an occupation cannot be called productive with all his will. It, on the contrary, is destructive to the life time of a person. But maximum productivity is not available to everyone, but only to units.