counterproductive

See also: counter-productive

English

Etymology

counter- +‎ productive

Pronunciation

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Adjective

counterproductive (comparative more counterproductive, superlative most counterproductive)

More of a hindrance than a help.
- 2022 January 12, Sir Michael Holden, “Reform of the workforce or death by a thousand cuts?”, in RAIL, number 948, page 25:
  It's most likely that these kinds of cuts to service frequencies, train formations, and service start and finish times would cost more in revenue than they save in cost and would therefore be counterproductive.

Antonyms

productive

Translations

more of a hindrance than a help

Afrikaans: teenproduktief
Albanian: antiproduktiv
Arabic: نَتَائِج عَكْسِيَّة‎ (natāʾij ʿaksiyya)
Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Belarusian: контрпрадукты́ўны (kontrpraduktýŭny)
Bulgarian: контрапродукти́вно (kontraproduktívno)
Catalan: contraproduent
Cebuano: kontra-produktibo
Chinese:
Mandarin: 適得其反／适得其反 (zh) (shìdéqífǎn), 反效果的 (fǎn xiàoguǒ de), 產生反作用的／产生反作用的 (chǎnshēng zuòyòng de)
Czech: kontraproduktivní m
Danish: kontraproduktiv (da)
Dutch: averechts (nl)
Esperanto: kontraŭintenca, malefika
Finnish: haitallinen (fi)
French: contreproductif (fr), contre-productif (fr) m
Galician: contraproducente
Georgian: კონტრპროდუქტიული (ḳonṭrṗrodukṭiuli)
German: kontraproduktiv (de)
Greek: αντιπαραγωγικός (el) (antiparagogikós)
Haitian Creole: kontreproduktiv
Hungarian: kontraproduktív
Igbo: imebi
Indonesian: kontraproduktif (id)
Italian: controproducente (it)
Japanese: 反生産的 (han seisan-teki)
Kyrgyz: каршылыктуу (karşılıktuu)
Macedonian: контрапродуктивен (kontraproduktiven)
Polish: kontrproduktywny (pl), przeciwskuteczny (pl)
Portuguese: contraprodutivo
Romanian: contraproductiv
Russian: контрпродукти́вный (ru) (kontrproduktívnyj)
Serbo-Croatian: kontraproduktivan (sh)
Spanish: contraproducente (es)
Swedish: kontraproduktiv (sv)
Tamil: எதிர் விளைவுகளைத்தான் (etir viḷaivukaḷaittāṉ)
Ukrainian: контрпродукти́вний (kontrproduktývnyj)

References

“counterproductive”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.