unproductive
adjective/ˌʌnprəˈdʌktɪv/
Frequency rank: #11,833 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
Not producing useful results; failing to achieve anything worthwhile.
Example sentence
The team spent hours in unproductive meetings that solved nothing.
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