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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

fruitful
    adj 1: productive or conducive to producing in abundance; "be
           fruitful and multiply" [ant: unfruitful]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Fruitful \Fruit"ful\, a.
   Full of fruit; producing fruit abundantly; bearing results;
   prolific; fertile; liberal; bountiful; as, a fruitful tree,
   or season, or soil; a fruitful wife. -- Fruit"ful*ly, adv.
   -- Fruit"ful*ness, n.
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         Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth.
                                                  --Gen. i. 28.
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         [Nature] By disburdening grows
         More fruitful.                           --Milton.
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         The great fruitfulness of the poet's fancy. --Addison.

   Syn: Fertile; prolific; productive; fecund; plentiful; rich;
        abundant; plenteous. See Fertile.
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Thesaurus Results for Fruitful:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

abundant, advantageous, beneficial, blooming, bounteous, bountiful, bursting, bursting out, copious, creative, effective, exuberant, fecund, fertile, flourishing, fructiferous, fructuous, generous, lush, luxuriant, luxurious, plenteous, plentiful, pregnant, productive, profitable, proliferous, prolific, rewarding, rich, seminal, successful, superabundant, swarming, teeming, thriving, uberous, useful, well-spent, worthwhile

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