Synonyms for counter-productive
counter-pro·duc·tive

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1. List of paraphrases for "counter-productive":

   counterproductive, self-defeating, unproductive

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1. The President:

   A country's conscience sometimes has to be triggered by some inconvenience, as long as they're peaceful, I think they're necessary. When they turn violent then they're counter-productive.

2. Nick Littlehales:

   The phone I'm talking to you on now was simply a mobile phone when I was walking around Manchester United football club in 1998 -- it is now used for so many different things, they have a counter-productive effect on a very natural process called our circadian rhythms, which has so many biological consequences in our bodies.

3. President Trump on Thursday:

   He also said it needs to be studied. Actually, it doesn't. I mean we know the answer to this one, i think everybody would know that that would be dangerous and counter-productive.

4. Communications Minister Nikolai Nikiforov:

   To simply postpone, delay the coming into force of these norms of the anti-terrorist package to 2023 we think is counter-productive.

5. Alexandra Phelan:

   This essentially serves as a call to the international community that they have to step up appropriate financial and technical support, those restrictions would actually restrict the flow of goods and health care workers into affected countries so they are counter-productive.