- bearing much fruit
- producing much; productive; prolific
- producing results; profitable: a fruitful plan
Origin of fruitful
Middle English
adjective
- An example of a fruitful woman is a woman with 10 children.
- An example of fruitful efforts are efforts to fund-raise that end up generating millions in donations.
The definition of fruitful is a fertile person with many children, or a plant that produces a lot of fruit, or something productive or effective.
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fruitful
adjective
- a. Producing fruit, especially in abundance.b. Producing offspring, especially in abundance.c. Capable of producing vegetation: fruitful soil.
- Producing useful or desired results; productive: a fruitful collaboration; a fruitful suggestion. See Synonyms at fertile.
Related Forms:
- fruit′ful·ly
adverb
- fruit′ful·ness
noun
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Adjective
(comparative more fruitful, superlative most fruitful)
- Favourable to the growth of fruit or useful vegetation; fertile; not barren.
- Being productive in any sense; yielding benefits.
- The extra work in the office turned out to be fruitful after all - I got promoted
Origin
fruit + -ful
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Sentence Examples
- It wasn't a fruitful day.
- Few explorations have been so fruitful as this six years' journey.
- All experiments are fruitful if you don't have any preconceived notions about the results.
- Experience with epidemics, dearly bought in the past, has shown that one fruitful cause is the laying open to the inroads of some Fungus or insect, hitherto leading a quiet endemic life in the fields and forests, large tracts of its special food, along which it may range rampant without check to its dispersal, nutrition and reproduction.
- "Good. That will make this a fruitful conversation," the Watcher said.
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WORDS NEAR fruitful IN THE DICTIONARY
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- fruiters
- fruiteth
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