fruitful
AdjectiveUS[froot-fuhl]/ˈfrutfəl/2 syllables
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Adjective (1)
- productive or conducive to producing in abundance“be fruitful and multiply”Opposite unfruitfulSimilar fat, breeding, generative, round-fruited, high-yield, prolific, red-fruited, blue-fruited +5 moreSee also fertile, productive
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Fruit′ful adjective
Full of fruit; producing fruit abundantly; bearing results; prolific; fertile; liberal; bountiful; as, a fruitful tree, or season, or soil; a fruitful wife. — Fruit′wb-a1′>′ful·ly, adverb — Fruit′wb-a1′>′ful·ness, noun
Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth.— Gen. i. 28.
[Nature] By disburdening grows More fruitful.— John Milton
The great fruitfulness of the poet's fancy.— Joseph Addison
Synonyms: Fertile; prolific; productive; fecund; plentiful; rich; abundant; plenteous. See Fertile.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54