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n. 1 producing, manufacture, manufacturing, making,
fabrication, preparation, origination, creation, output, putting
out, development; formation, forming, forging, shaping,
moulding, casting, assembly, building, construction: Our
business is the production of insulating materials. 2 product,
(end) result, work, effort, handiwork, output, opus, oeuvre:
These paintings are clearly productions of a fertile
imagination. 3 (in Britain) artistry, direction, staging; (in
US and Canada) display, presentation, staging, mise en scŠne,
setting: Both the acting and the production were superb. 4
drama, play, (stage or television or radio) show, performance;
film, motion or moving picture, movie: Our repertory company is
putting on a production of Othello next week.
productive
adj. 1 fruitful, fertile, rich, fecund, plentiful, plenteous,
abundant, bountiful, bounteous, prolific, dynamic: Owing to a
perfect balance of rain and sunshine, the earth has proved
productive this year. 2 imaginative, creative, inventive,
resourceful, generative, ingenious, fertile, vigorous: Her
latest science-fiction trilogy is certainly evidence of a highly
productive mind. 3 profitable, remunerative, rewarding,
valuable, worthwhile: Years ago he made an investment in
computer shares that has turned out to be very productive.
Discussing sales strategy is not as productive as getting out
there and selling.
profane adj. 1 irreverent, sacrilegious, blasphemous, idolatrous,
irreligious, infidel, heathen, unbelieving, disbelieving, pagan,
atheist(ic), impious, godless, ungodly, sinful, wicked,
iniquitous, contemptuous, disrespectful: The faithful attacked
anyone who was seen to perform a profane act. 2 unsanctified,
unholy, unconsecrated, defiled, impure, unclean, unhallowed,
non-religious, non-sacred, unsacred; lay, non-clerical, secular,
temporal; Judaism tref or treif or treifa, non-kosher: The
missionaries persuaded them to abandon their profane rites and
practices. 3 bad, dirty, filthy, smutty, foul, foul-mouthed,
obscene, vulgar, coarse, uncouth, low, taboo, blasphemous,
bawdy, ribald, scurrilous, off colour, immodest, improper,
naughty, indecent, unprintable, unmentionable, indecorous,
indelicate, common; abusive, vituperative, venomous,
thersitical, Literary Fescennine, Colloq blue: The boy was sent
home from school for using profane language.