Fruitful
['fruːtfʊl;-f(ə)l] or ['frutfl]
Definition
(adj.) productive or conducive to producing in abundance; 'be fruitful and multiply' .
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Definition
(a.) Full of fruit; producing fruit abundantly; bearing results; prolific; fertile; liberal; bountiful; as, a fruitful tree, or season, or soil; a fruitful wife.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Productive, abounding in fruit.[2]. Prolific, fertile, fecund, not barren.[3]. Plentiful, plenteous, abundant, rich.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Productive, prolific, pregnant, fraught, causative, effectual, useful,successful, fertile, abundant, plenteous, fecund, plentiful
ANT:Unproductive, sterile, barren, fruitless, ineffectual, useless, abortive
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Examples
- He lent it fruitful direction, a different impetus, and the results are beyond his imagining. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The goings on of Aspasia were of course a fruitful vineyard for the inventions of the street. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Slowly but surely the results of the last few thousands of his preliminary experiments had pointed inevitably to a new and fruitful region ahead. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Reason ceases to be a remote and ideal faculty, and signifies all the resources by which activity is made fruitful in meaning. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Though their marriages are generally more fruitful than those of people of fashion, a smaller proportion of their children arrive at maturity. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Reference to these possible applications is necessary in order that the abstraction may be fruitful, instead of a barren formalism ending in itself. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Had they faced the human sources of their problem, had they tried to think of the social evil as an answer to a human need, their researches would have been different, their remedies fruitful. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Knowledge, already attained knowledge, controls thinking and makes it fruitful. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- All the stultification of the stand-pat mind may be described as inability, and perhaps unwillingness, to nourish a fruitful choice of issues. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- No bracing critical atmosphere plays about his mind: there are no cleansing doubts and fruitful alternatives. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The laboratory is a discovery of the condition under which labor may become intellectually fruitful and not merely externally productive. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It was followed by several more years of fruitful investigation, leading to that ultimate triumph whic h it was given to Samuel Pierpont Langley to see only with the eye of faith. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The very word pupil has almost come to mean one who is engaged not in having fruitful experiences but in absorbing knowledge directly. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In the household, bacteria are a fruitful source of trouble, but some of them are distinctly friends. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Peering into the invisible little world, the infinite secrets of microcosm have yielded their fruitful and potent knowledge of bacteria and cell growth. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It is about one third as large as the Isle of Wight, and extremely fruitful: it is governed by the head of a certain tribe, who are all magicians. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
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