counterproductive

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• /ˌkaʊntəpɹəˈdʌktɪv/
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Italic *-teros Proto-Italic *komterosder. Proto-Italic *komterād Latin contrāder. Old French contre- Anglo-Norman countre-bor. Middle English counter- English counter- Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *pér Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *pró Proto-Indo-European *pro- Proto-Italic *pro- Latin prō- Proto-Indo-European *dewk- Proto-Indo-European *déwkti Proto-Italic *doukō Latin dūcō Latin prōdūcō Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Late Latin prōductīvusbor. English productive English counterproductive From counter- + productive.

41 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: teenproduktief — more of a hindrance than a help
• Albanian: antiproduktiv — more of a hindrance than a help
• Arabic: نَتَائِج عَكْسِيَّة (natāʔij ʕaksiyya) — more of a hindrance than a help
• Belarusian: контрпрадукты́ўны (kontrpraduktýwny) — more of a hindrance than a help
• Bulgarian: контрапродукти́вно (kontraproduktívno) — more of a hindrance than a help
• Catalan: contraproduent — more of a hindrance than a help
• Cebuano: kontra-produktibo — more of a hindrance than a help
• Chinese Mandarin: 適得其反 /适得其反 (shìdéqífǎn) — more of a hindrance than a help
• Chinese Mandarin: 反效果的 (fǎn xiàoguǒ de) — more of a hindrance than a help
• Chinese Mandarin: 產生反作用的 /产生反作用的 (chǎnshēng zuòyòng de) — more of a hindrance than a help
• Czech: kontraproduktivní — more of a hindrance than a help
• Danish: kontraproduktiv — more of a hindrance than a help
• Dutch: averechts — more of a hindrance than a help
• Esperanto: kontraŭintenca — more of a hindrance than a help
• Esperanto: malefika — more of a hindrance than a help
• Finnish: haitallinen — more of a hindrance than a help
• French: contreproductif — more of a hindrance than a help
• French: contre-productif — more of a hindrance than a help
• Galician: contraproducente — more of a hindrance than a help
• Georgian: კონტრპროდუქტიული (ḳonṭrṗrodukṭiuli) — more of a hindrance than a help
• German: kontraproduktiv — more of a hindrance than a help
• Greek: αντιπαραγωγικός (antiparagogikós) — more of a hindrance than a help
• Haitian Creole: kontreproduktiv — more of a hindrance than a help
• Hungarian: kontraproduktív — more of a hindrance than a help
• Igbo: imebi — more of a hindrance than a help
• Indonesian: kontraproduktif — more of a hindrance than a help
• Italian: controproducente — more of a hindrance than a help
• Japanese: 反生産的 (han seisan-teki) — more of a hindrance than a help
• Kyrgyz: каршылыктуу (karşılıktuu) — more of a hindrance than a help
• Macedonian: контрапродуктивен (kontraproduktiven) — more of a hindrance than a help
• Polish: kontrproduktywny — more of a hindrance than a help
• Polish: przeciwskuteczny — more of a hindrance than a help
• Portuguese: contraprodutivo — more of a hindrance than a help
• Romanian: contraproductiv — more of a hindrance than a help
• Russian: контрпродукти́вный (kontrproduktívnyj) — more of a hindrance than a help
• Serbo-Croatian: kontraproduktivan — more of a hindrance than a help
• Spanish: contraproducente — more of a hindrance than a help
• Spanish: contraproductivo — more of a hindrance than a help
• Swedish: kontraproduktiv — more of a hindrance than a help
• Tamil: எதிர் விளைவுகளைத்தான் (etir viḷaivukaḷaittāṉ) — more of a hindrance than a help
• Ukrainian: контрпродукти́вний (kontrproduktývnyj) — more of a hindrance than a help