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fruitful
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]
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.
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, worthwhileROGET 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.For further exploring for "fruitful" in Webster Dictionary Online