unproductiveness

Roget category 169

1. Words expressing abstract relations
› 1.8. Causation
›› 1.8.3. Power in operation

#169. Unproductiveness

noun

unproductiveness etc. adj. — infertility, sterility, infecundity^† — masturbation — impotence etc. 158 — unprofitableness etc. (inutility) 645.
waste, desert, Sahara, wild, wilderness, howling wilderness.

verb

be unproductive etc. adj. — hang fire, flash in the pan, come to nothing.
[make unproductive] sterilize, addle — disable, inactivate.

adjective

unproductive, acarpous^†, inoperative, barren, addled, infertile, unfertile, unprolific^†, arid, sterile, unfruitful, infecund^† — sine prole — fallow — teemless^†, issueless^†, fruitless — unprofitable etc. (useless) 645 — null and void, of no effect.

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