Meaning of FRUITFUL
| Pronunciation: | | 'frootful
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- [adj] productive or conducive to producing in abundance; "be fruitful and multiply"
- [adj] productive of profit; "a profitable enterprise"; "a fruitful meeting"
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| | Synonyms: | | baccate, bacciferous, berried, bountiful, breeding, fat, fertile, generative, plentiful, procreative, productive, profitable, prolific, reproductive, rich, verdant |
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| | Antonyms: | | unfruitful | | |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth.
--Gen. i. 28.
[Nature] By disburdening grows More fruitful. --Milton.
The great fruitfulness of the poet's fancy. --Addison.
Syn: Fertile; prolific; productive; fecund; plentiful; rich;
abundant; plenteous. See {Fertile}.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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