fruitful

English

Alternative forms

• fruitfull (archaic)

Etymology

fruit +‎ -ful

Adjective

fruitful (comparative more fruitful, superlative most fruitful)

1. Favourable to the growth of fruit or useful vegetation; fertile; not barren.
2. Being productive in any sense; yielding benefits.

   The extra work in the office turned out to be fruitful after all - I got promoted

Quotations

• 1611, King James Version of the Bible (Authorized Version)^[1] Genesis, I, 22

  And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:productive

Antonyms

• unfruitful
• barren
• infertile

Related terms

• fruitfully
• fruitfulness

Translations

favorable to the growth

Basque: emankor (eu) Danish: frugtbar (da) Dutch: vruchtbaar (nl) Esperanto: fruktoporta (eo)

German: fruchtbar (de) Romanian: roditor (ro), rodnic (ro), fertil (ro) Russian: плодоносный (ru) (about plants), плодородный (ru) (plodoródnyj) (about soil) Spanish: fértil (es)

productive, yielding benefits

Basque: emankor (eu) Danish: frugtbar (da) Dutch: vruchtbaar (nl) Esperanto: fruktoporta (eo)

German: fruchtbar (de) Russian: плодотворный (ru) (plodtvórnyj), продуктивный (ru), производительный (ru), эффективный (ru), приносящий хорошие результаты (ru) Spanish: fértil (es), prolífico (es), productivo (es)

References

• fruitful in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• fruitful in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913