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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
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 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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