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FRUITFUL

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (adjective) 

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Meaning:

Productive or conducive to producing in abundance

Example:

be fruitful and multiply

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

baccate; bacciferous; berried (producing or bearing berries)

blue-fruited (bearing blue fruit)

bountiful; plentiful (producing in abundance)

breeding (producing offspring or set aside especially for producing offspring)

dark-fruited (bearing dark fruit)

fat; fertile; productive; rich (marked by great fruitfulness)

generative; procreative; reproductive (producing new life or offspring)

high-yield (yielding a large amount of agricultural or industrial production)

oval-fruited (bearing oval fruit)

fertile; prolific (bearing in abundance especially offspring)

red-fruited (bearing red fruit)

round-fruited (bearing round fruit)

small-fruited (bearing small fruit)

Also:

fertile (capable of reproducing)

productive (producing or capable of producing (especially abundantly))

Antonym:

unfruitful (not fruitful; not conducive to abundant production)

Derivation:

fruitfulness (the quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth)

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