fruitful
/ˈfɹuːtfl̩/ adjective
Forms fruitfull
- adjective Favourable to the growth of fruit or useful vegetation; not barren.
- adjective Being productive in any sense; yielding benefits. “The extra work in the office turned out to be fruitful after all—I got promoted”
Synonyms
fructive fructuous productive prolific pregnant batful luxuriant fertile thriving yielding yieldly voluminous fruitious
Antonyms
Etymology
From Middle English fruitefull, equivalent to fruit + -ful. Compare Dutch vruchtvol, German fruchtvoll, Swedish fruktfull.
Webster’s 1913
Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “fruitful”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details