Fruitful
1Fruitful — 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… …
2fruitful — [fro͞ot′fəl] adj. [ME] 1. bearing much fruit 2. producing much; productive; prolific 3. producing results; profitable [a fruitful plan] SYN. FERTILE fruitfully adv. fruitfulness n …
3fruitful — index fertile, gainful, lucrative, operative, productive, profitable, prolific, successful Burton s Legal T …
4fruitful — c.1300, of trees, from FRUIT (Cf. fruit) + FUL (Cf. ful). Related: Fruitfully; fruitfulness. Of animals or persons from early 16c.; of immaterial things from 1530s …
5fruitful — fecund, prolific, *fertile Analogous words: reproducing or reproductive, propagating, breeding (see corresponding verbs at GENERATE): bearing, producing or productive, yielding (see corresponding verbs at BEAR): teeming, abounding (see TEEM):… …
6fruitful — [adj] productive abounding, abundant, advantageous, beneficial, blooming, blossoming, breeding, childing, conducive, copious, effective, fecund, fertile, flourishing, flush, fructiferous, gainful, plenteous, plentiful, profitable, profuse,… …
7fruitful — ► ADJECTIVE 1) producing much fruit; fertile. 2) producing good results; productive. DERIVATIVES fruitfully adverb fruitfulness noun …
8fruitful — [[t]fru͟ːtfʊl[/t]] 1) ADJ GRADED Something that is fruitful produces good and useful results. We had a long, happy, fruitful relationship... The talks had been fruitful, but much remained to be done. Syn: successful Derived words: fruitfully ADV… …
9fruitful — fruit|ful [ˈfru:tfəl] adj 1.) producing good results ≠ ↑fruitless ▪ Today s meeting proved more fruitful than last week s. ▪ a busy and fruitful time ▪ Annual business reports were a fruitful source of information. 2.) literary land that is… …
10fruitful — fruitfully, adv. fruitfulness, n. /frooht feuhl/, adj. 1. producing good results; beneficial; profitable: fruitful investigations. 2. abounding in fruit, as trees or other plants; bearing fruit abundantly. 3. producing an abundant growth, as of… …
