Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
productive or conducive to producing in abundance;
- Example: "be fruitful and multiply"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Fruitful \Fruit"ful\, a.
Full of fruit; producing fruit abundantly; bearing results;
prolific; fertile; liberal; bountiful; as, a fruitful tree,
or season, or soil; a fruitful wife. -- Fruit"ful*ly, adv.
-- Fruit"ful*ness, n.
[1913 Webster]
Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth.
--Gen. i. 28.
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[Nature] By disburdening grows
More fruitful. --Milton.
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The great fruitfulness of the poet's fancy. --Addison.
Syn: Fertile; prolific; productive; fecund; plentiful; rich;
abundant; plenteous. See Fertile.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
fruitful
adj 1: productive or conducive to producing in abundance; "be
fruitful and multiply" [ant: unfruitful]