Fruitful

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: fruit=ful

CIDE DICTIONARY

Fruitful, a. 

 Full of fruit; producing fruit abundantly; bearing results; prolific; fertile; liberal; bountiful; as, a fruitful tree, or season, or soil; a fruitful wife.  [1913 Webster]
"Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth."  [1913 Webster]
"[Nature] By disburdening grows
More fruitful."  [1913 Webster]
"The great fruitfulness of the poet's fancy."

Syn. -- Fertile; prolific; productive; fecund; plentiful; rich; abundant; plenteous. See Fertile.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Fruitful, adj.
1 producing much fruit; fertile; causing fertility.
2 producing good results, successful; beneficial, remunerative.
3 producing offspring, esp. prolifically.

Derivative

fruitfully adv. fruitfulness n.

THESAURUS

Fruitful

abundant, advantageous, beneficial, blooming, bounteous, bountiful, bursting, bursting out, copious, creative, effective, exuberant, fecund, fertile, flourishing, fructiferous, fructuous, generous, lush, luxuriant, luxurious, plenteous, plentiful, pregnant, productive, profitable, proliferous, prolific, rewarding, rich, seminal, successful, superabundant, swarming, teeming, thriving, uberous, useful, well-spent, worthwhile

ROGET THESAURUS

Fruitful

Productiveness

N productiveness, fecundity, fertility, luxuriance, uberty, pregnancy, pullulation, fructification, multiplication, propagation, procreation, superfetation, milch cow, rabbit, hydra, warren, seed plot, land flowing with milk and honey, second crop, aftermath, aftercrop, aftergrowth, arrish, eddish, rowen, protoplasm, fertilization, productive, prolific, teeming, teemful, fertile, fruitful, frugiferous, fruit-bearing, fecund, luxuriant, pregnant, uberous, procreant, procreative, generative, life-giving, spermatic, multiparous, omnific, propagable, parturient, profitable.