Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
not directly productive;
- Example: "nonproductive labor"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
nonproductive \nonproductive\ adj.
not directly productive; as, nonproductive labor.
[WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
nonproductive
adj 1: not directly productive; "nonproductive labor"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
42 Moby Thesaurus words for "nonproductive":
acarpous, arid, barren, celibate, childless, desert, desolate,
drained, dried-up, dry, exhausted, fallow, fruitless, gaunt,
gelded, impotent, ineffectual, infecund, infertile, issueless,
jejune, leached, menopausal, nonfertile, nonproducing, nonprolific,
sine prole, sterile, sucked dry, teemless, uncultivated, unfertile,
unfruitful, unplowed, unproductive, unprolific, unsown, untilled,
virgin, waste, wasted, without issue