fruitful

English

Alternative forms

• fruitfull (archaic)

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English fruitefull, equivalent to fruit +‎ -ful. Compare Dutch vruchtvol, German fruchtvoll, Swedish fruktfull.

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

• Template:RQ:Authorized Version 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 Thesaurus:productive

Antonyms

• unfruitful
• barren
• infertile

Related terms

• fruitfully
• fruitfulness

Translations

favorable to the growth

• Basque: emankor (eu)
• Bulgarian: плодоро́ден (bg) (plodoróden)
• Danish: frugtbar (da)
• Dutch: vruchtbaar (nl)
• Esperanto: fruktoporta
• Estonian: viljakas
• Finnish: viljava, hedelmällinen (fi)
• Georgian: ნაყოფიერი (naq̇opieri)
• German: fruchtbar (de)
• Greek: εύφορος (el) m (éfforos)
• Ido: fruktifanta (io)
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• Irish: torthúil, méiniúil
• Latin: ferax
• Latvian: rasmīgs (poetic), auglīgs, ražīgs
• Maori: oho
• Norwegian: fruktbar (no)
• Portuguese: fértil (pt), frutífero (pt) m
• Romanian: roditor (ro), rodnic (ro), fertil (ro)
• Russian: плодоно́сный (ru) (plodonósnyj) (about plants), плодоро́дный (ru) (plodoródnyj) (about soil)
• Slovene: rodoviten
• Spanish: fértil (es)
• Telugu: ఫలవంతము (te) (phalavantamu)

productive, yielding benefits

• Basque: emankor (eu)
• Bulgarian: плодовит (bg) (plodovit), плодотворен (plodotvoren)
• Danish: frugtbar (da)
• Dutch: vruchtbaar (nl)
• Esperanto: fruktoporta
• Estonian: viljakas
• Finnish: viljava, antoisa (fi)
• French: fructueux (fr)
• German: fruchtbar (de)
• Greek: καρποφόρος (el) m (karpofóros)

  Ancient: καρπόφορος (karpóphoros)

• Italian: proficuo (it) m, fruttuoso (it) m
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• Latin: fēcundus
• Latvian: produktīvs, ražīgs, auglīgs, rezultatīvs
• Maori: makuru, huākumu
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fruktbar (no)

  Nynorsk: fruktbar

• Polish: owocny (pl) m
• Portuguese: produtivo (pt), frutuoso (pt)
• Romanian: fructuos (ro) m
• Russian: плодотво́рный (ru) (plodotvórnyj), продукти́вный (ru) (produktívnyj), производи́тельный (ru) (proizvodítelʹnyj), эффекти́вный (ru) (effektívnyj), принося́щий хоро́шие результа́ты (prinosjáščij xoróšije rezulʹtáty)
• Slovene: ploden (sl)
• Spanish: fértil (es), prolífico (es), productivo (es), fructífero (es)

References

• “fruitful”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “fruitful”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.