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)
• Latvian: rasmīgs (lv) (poetic)

• Romanian: roditor (ro), rodnic (ro), fertil (ro)
• Russian: плодоносный (ru) (plodonósnyj) (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)
• French: fructueux (fr)
• German: fruchtbar (de)

• Polish: owocny (pl) m
• Russian: плодотворный (ru) (plodtvórnyj), продуктивный (ru) (produktívnyj), производительный (ru) (proizvodítelʹnyj), эффективный (ru) (effektívnyj), ‎приносящий хорошие результаты (prinosjáščij xoróšije rezulʹtáty) 
• 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