The fertile soil of the river valley proved highly productive, yielding abundant harvests of wheat and barley each season.
河谷肥沃的土壤被证明是多产的，每季都能产出大量的小麦和大麦。
Poet Celeste Marchetti argues that traditional forms, far from constraining honest expression, actually sharpen a poet's thinking by forcing difficult, productive choices about word and rhythm that free verse allows a writer to avoid.
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Historian Ingrid Sorensen argues that the widespread availability of eyeglasses in medieval Europe extended the productive careers of skilled scribes and artisans whose close-up work required sharp vision.
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Which choice best defines “productive”?
B — Producing or able to produce large amounts of goods. “productive” means producing or able to produce large amounts of goods.
Which word means “producing or able to produce large amounts of goods”?
A — productive. “productive” means producing or able to produce large amounts of goods.
productive — producing or able to produce large amounts of goods. In Chinese: 多产的，富有成效的.
productive is pronounced /prəˈdʌktɪv/.
The fertile soil of the river valley proved highly productive, yielding abundant harvests of wheat and barley each season. (河谷肥沃的土壤被证明是多产的，每季都能产出大量的小麦和大麦。)
fruitful, efficient, prolific — all close in meaning to productive (producing or able to produce large amounts of goods).
unproductive, barren — each the opposite of productive (producing or able to produce large amounts of goods).
Yes. productive is on the SAT Prep Easy list — mid-frequency academic words that do get tested. The Digital SAT does not test vocabulary in isolation; words like this one are tested through Words in Context questions, where you choose the word that completes a passage most logically and precisely.