low yield
Scant production output
Low yield describes something that produces less than expected or desired.
In agriculture, a low-yield crop generates little harvest relative to effort or acreage.
In finance, low-yield investments return modest interest or dividends: Treasury bonds are low yield but safe.
Nuclear weapons designated low yield have relatively small explosive power—though still devastating by conventional standards.
- poor harvestInsufficient crop production
- meagerDeficient in quantity
- scarceIn short supply
- slim pickingsVery limited options
- droughtProlonged water scarcity
bad harvest · barren · lean times · diminished · disappointing · below expectations · crop failure · stunted · infertile · thin · sparse · underwhelming · fallow · paltry · bonds · treasury · interest · return
- Water Problemscontamination, turbidity, hard water, dry well, dry wells
- dividendsdividend, dividends, cash dividends, stock dividend, stock dividends
low yieldhigh yield
Abundant output ratio
bumper crop · bountiful harvest · prolific · banner year · productive
low yieldhigh yield
Abundant output ratio
high-yield · lucrative · high interest · profitable · megaton
low, lower, lowest, lowly, lowness, lows, yield, yields, yielded