fruitful
When something is fruitful, it's productive — but you don't have to produce fruit in order to be fruitful. You could have a fruitful trip to the mall if you come home with a slew of snappy new outfits.
There's a famous line from the Bible: "Be fruitful and multiply." That gives you a pretty good sense of the word: fruitful activity multiplies or adds to what's already there, producing more of something. A couple is fruitful if they have children: the more children, the more fruitful. An artist is fruitful if they create a lot of artwork. A business is fruitful if it creates profits and expands. Anything fruitful is productive: it grows and produces, much like a fruit tree.
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productive or conducive to producing in abundance“be fruitful and multiply”synonyms:fertilecapable of reproducingblue-fruitedbearing blue fruitbreedingproducing offspring or set aside especially for producing offspringdark-fruitedbearing dark fruithigh-yieldyielding a large amount of agricultural or industrial productionoval-fruitedbearing oval fruitred-fruitedbearing red fruitround-fruitedbearing round fruitsmall-fruitedbearing small fruitproductiveproducing or capable of producing (especially abundantly)antonyms:unfruitfulnot fruitful; not conducive to abundant productionacarpousproducing no fruitchildlesswithout offspring
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The suffix -ful means "characterized by" or "full of." For example, a joyful song is characterized by joy or happiness. Learn these words that include the suffix -ful.
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