I. WORDS EXPRESSING ABSTRACT RELATIONS

VIII. CAUSATION

3. POWER IN OPERATION

[Antonyms: productiveness.]

[Nouns] unproductiveness; infertility, sterility, infecundity; impotence [more]; unprofitableness (inutility) [more].

waste, desert, Sahara, wild, wilderness, howling wilderness.

[Verbs] be unproductive; hang fire, flash in the pan, come to nothing.

[make unproductive] sterilize, addle; disable, inactivate.

[Adjectives] unproductive, acarpous, inoperative, barren, addled, unfertile, unprolific, arid, sterile, unfruitful, infecund; sine prole; fallow; teemless, issueless, fruitless; unprofitable (useless) [more]; null and void, of no effect.