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fruitful Definition

fruit·ful (fro̵̅o̅t′fəl)

adjective

  1. bearing much fruit
  2. producing much; productive; prolific
  3. producing results; profitable a fruitful plan

Etymology: ME

fruitful Related Forms

fruit′·fully adverb fruit′·ful·ness noun

fruitful Synonyms

fruitful

modif.

  1. Fertile in a literal sense

    prolific, productive, fecund; see fertile 1, 2.

  2. Producing results, or likely to produce results

    productive, conducive, useful; see profitable. See syn. study at fertile.

fruitful Usage Examples

Adjective complement with noun phrase

make: Make your ideas attractive, focus on the benefits and how you can make adoption fruitful.

Modifies a noun

  • collaboration: Together we look forward to a fruitful collaboration with the Skillset Screen Academy network across the UK.
  • avenue: This is another fruitful avenue for the voluntary sector to explore.
  • dialog: We welcome advice on how best to achieve a fruitful dialog here.
  • disciple: It's for Christians who want to address the challenge of living well as fruitful, missionary disciples in today's rapidly changing culture.
  • cooperation: We continue to work hard in the war on terrorism and to have very fruitful cooperation there.
  • ministry: Pray that they will have a fruitful ministry here in the short time that they are with us.

Modifying Another Word

  • immensely: Those experiments can be immensely fruitful for new makers.
  • potentially: A life course perspective would open up potentially fruitful lines of inquiry.
  • particularly: For example, models involving chaotic dynamics are proving particularly fruitful.
  • extremely: In the 1990's, ICN collaborations with the National Hospital continued to be extremely fruitful.
  • very: The meeting with Phoenix Venture Holding's Deputy Chairman was very fruitful, with the company offering their full support for the event.
  • especially: A notable example where this relationship has been especially fruitful concerns the provision for Slavonic studies.

Infinitive complement

  • look: It would be more fruitful to look at what she's actually saying and then discuss the arguments.
  • explore: However, there are connections to the Tarot, which are more fruitful to explore.

Used with adjective complement

  • prove: The second half would proved more fruitful for both sides with the home side striking first.
  • become: I hope that this will some day become fruitful.
  • make: Meditation also fosters a state of recollection that makes fruitful the times of silence during the day.
  • seem: They involve working with teachers in a number of schools to see what approaches seem most fruitful in evaluating the impact of EMU.

Preposition: in

way: And even if it turns out to be wrong-headed maybe the debate will be fruitful in unintended ways.