 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
fruitful
adjective
1: productive or conducive to producing in abundance; "be
fruitful and multiply" [ant: {unfruitful}]
2: productive of profit; "a profitable enterprise"; "a fruitful
meeting" [syn: {profitable}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fruitful \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"ful*ly}, adverb
-- {Fruit"ful*ness}, noun
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}.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
40 Moby Thesaurus words for "fruitful":
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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