fruitfuladj.

Brit.

/ˈfruːtf(ᵿ)l/, U.S.

/ˈfrutf(ə)l/

Forms: α. (see fruit n.). β. Middle English–1600s fructfull, (Middle English fructufulle), 1500s fruictfull.

Etymology: < fruit n. + -ful suffix.

1. Productive of fruit. Of trees, etc.: Bearing plenty of fruit. Of soils, etc.: Fertile. Of rain, etc.: Causing fertility.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > productiveness > [adjective]

bearinglOE

fruitfula1300

plenteousc1325

fructuousa1382

birthful?c1475

fertile1481

broodya1522

yielding1556

foisonous1570

procreant1588

generative1597

yieldy1598

childing1600

seedful1605

thankful1610

foisonable1613

prolifical1615

fecundous1630

feracious1637

prolific1653

fetiferous1654

floriferous1656

productive1672

fœtant1678

spawning1682

uberousa1706

populous?1789

productible1830

grateful1832

resultful1833

genetic1838

tumid1840

polyphorous1858

generant1875

proliferent1920

the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by good growth > [adjective] > fruitful or fertile

fruitfula1300

fructive14..

frugiferous1633

pregnant1669

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > soil qualities > [adjective] > fertile or rich

goodOE

fruitfula1300

gladc1420

unlean?1440

richa1522

batwell1534

battle?1542

luxuriant?c1550

yielding1556

gleby1566

yieldable1577

hearty1580

yieldy1598

liking1600

well-natured1600

lusty1601

growthsome1610

thankful1610

pregnant1615

in heart1626

grateful1832

fatty1855

the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > fruit or reproductive product > plant that bears fruit > [adjective] > bearing fruit or fruitful

fruitfula1300

birthel-treea1325

fructified14..

fructive14..

fructuosec1440

fructifiable1623

fructiferous1632

frugiferous1633

frugiferent1656

pregnant1669

prolific1738

fruiting1778

fruited1786

fruitening1845

fructificative1887

the world > plants > by growth or development > [adjective] > characterized by or causing growth

vegetating1605

fruitful1649

germinative1707

the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by good growth > [adjective] > causing fertility or fruitfulness

fruitful1649

a1300 E.E. Psalter cxlviii. 9 Tries fruitefulle and cedres alle.

c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xiv. 61 Þir hilles er riȝt fruytfull.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Neh. ix. 25 Vynyardes, oyl~garden, and many frutefull trees.

1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors v. f. 63 Claye..is not so fruitfull as marle.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III v. ii. 8 The..bore, That spoild your somer-fieldes, and fruitfull vines.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xix. vii. 23 Such seeds..must be all throughly dried before they be..fruitfull.

1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar iii. xiv. 49 The fruitfull Nilus..filling all the trenches to make a plenty of corn and fruits.

1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World x. 293 The Tree hath usually 3 fruitful Branches.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 56 Heav'n invok'd with Vows for fruitful Rain.

1739 Lady Pomfret Let. I. xxii. 84 A very steep but fruitful hill..the vineyards.. crown the very summit.

1859 W. M. Thackeray Virginians xxiv His estate..was as large as Kent; and..infinitely more fruitful.

a. Productive of offspring; not barren; producing offspring in abundance, prolific.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > [adjective]

bearingOE

genderinga1398

multiplyinga1400

fecundc1420

broodya1522

fruitful1526

breeding1552

procreant1588

procreative1598

increasing1600

broodious1602

prolifical1608

conceptiousa1616

plenteousa1616

conceptive1630

feracious1637

propagatory1647

prolific1650

proliferous1654

propagative1654

progenial1664

teemful1755

progenitive1769

breedy1824

proligerous1836

progenital1837

philoprogenitive1857

eugenesic1864

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. FFFvii Lya was the more frutful and had more chyldren than Rachel.

?1527 L. Andrewe tr. Noble Lyfe Bestes sig. qi^v A Bremon is a fruteful fisshe that hathe moche sede.

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iv. f. 162 Some [hens] are so fruitefull, as they kil them selues with laying.

1611 Bible (King James) Gen. i. 22 God blessed them, saying, Be fruitfull, and multiply.

1667 Duchess of Newcastle Life Duke of Newcastle i. 55 A young Woman, that might prove fruitful to him.

a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 563 The fruitfullest marriage that has been known in our age.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VIII. 43 Nature..has rendered some animals surprizingly fruitful.

1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) III. xii. 111 That marriage proved happy and fruitful.

1871 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom (ed. 4) 367 The queen bee, when deprived of her wings before any communication with the male has taken place, will nevertheless lay fruitful eggs.

b. Astrology. Favourable to fecundity.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > heavenly body > as influence on mankind > [adjective] > fruitful

prolifical1647

fruitful1721

1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Fruitful Signs, [in Astrology] are the Signs Gemini, Cancer and Pisces.

†3. Of a harvest, a crop, hence of a reward, a meal, etc.: Abundant, copious. Chiefly in Shakespeare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [adjective]

goodeOE

broadOE

fullOE

large?c1225

rifec1225

fulsomea1325

abundanta1382

plenteousa1382

copiousc1384

plentifula1400

ranka1400

aboundc1425

affluentc1425

aboundable?1440

seedy1440

manyfulc1450

ample1472

olda1500

richa1500

flowing1526

fertilent1535

wallingc1540

copy1546

abounding1560

fat1563

numbrous1566

good, great store1569

round1592

redundant1594

fruitful1604

cornucopian1609

much1609

plenty?a1610

pukka1619

redundant1621

uberant1622

swelling1628

uberous1633

numerousa1635

superfluent1648

full tide1649

lucky1649

redounding1667

numerose1692

bumper1836

prolific1890

proliferous1915

1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. ii. 80 The fruitfull riuer in the eye.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) v. ii. 35 With a recompence more fruitfull Then their offence can weigh downe.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iv. iii. 150 One fruitful Meale would set mee too't.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 77 Harvests heavy with their fruitful weight, Adorn our Fields.

4. transferred and figurative.

†a. Productive of (material things), abounding in. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [adjective] > abundantly produced or producing

fecundc1400

facund?1504

bountifula1538

redundant?1611

fertilea1616

fruitful1629

prolific1665

productive1672

spawning1682

tousy1895

1629 tr. S. Pelegromius Descr. S'hertogenbosh 1 This Boscage was..fruitfull of wild Deere.

1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 328 The whole Region is very fruitful of Barren Mountains.

b. With reference to immaterial things: Prolific; abundantly productive. Const. in, of.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > productiveness > [adjective] > of career, genius, etc.

fruitful1535

the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [adjective] > plentiful or fertile

fertile1481

fruitful1535

milch1604

succulent1626

plump1635

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Coloss. i. A To be frutefull in all good workes.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 337 Golden days, fruitful of golden deeds.

1674 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 284 Martock in com. Somerset, ever fruitfull in good wits.

1744 J. Armstrong Art of preserving Health ii. 51 We curse not wine: The vile excess we blame; More fruitful, than th' accumulated board Of pain and misery.

1826 T. I. Wharton in Mem. Hist. Soc. Pennsylvania I. 134 His travels are fruitful of information.

1843 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Mexico III. vi. i. 15 His fruitful genius suggested an expedient.

1846 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 II. x. 406 A fruitful subject of contention.

1876 G. O. Trevelyan Life & Lett. Macaulay I. v. 289 The main incidents of that Session, so fruitful in great measures.

1885 Public Opinion 9 Jan. 37/2 Prince Albert Victor..has probably a long and fruitful career before him.

5. Productive of good results; beneficial, profitable, remunerative. Now only of actions, qualities, or the like; formerly also of concrete things.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > advantage > [adjective]

fremefulc1000

i-duȝea1250

hendyc1275

begetela1325

profitablea1325

speedful1340

worth1340

speedyc1380

behoveful1382

fructuousc1386

fruitfulc1386

vailable1390

availantc1420

availingc1420

commodious1420

commodous?1440

available1474

behovablea1475

advantageousc1485

profitly1485

beneficiala1513

advantageable1548

sanative1548

gainful1555

vantageable1570

vantageous?1572

gainy1573

comfortable1576

conducent1578

advantageous1591

bootful1594

availful1598

conducible?1611

commoditous1621

conducing1624

conduceful1635

proficuousa1642

proficaciousa1660

beneficenta1676

conducive1710

benefactory1744

benignant1791

sanatorya1832

beneficiary1836

c1386 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale ⁋36 And this is fruitful penance ayenst tho three thinges, in which we wrathen our Lord Jesu Christ.

c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 228 Ydelnesse & ese, wyth-oute fruytfull occupacyoun.

?1504 W. Atkinson tr. Thomas à Kempis Ful Treat. Imytacyon Cryste (Pynson) i. xxv. 178 Holye redynge of frutefull doctrine.

1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique ii. lxi. 401 The fruitfullest thing that can be kept about a countrie house is Bees.

1640 J. Yorke Union of Honour 4 Robert with his followers obtained a fruitfull possession in those parts.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 303. ¶4 Instances of the same great and fruitful Invention.

1867 A. Barry Life & Wks. Sir C. Barry ix. 303 It had the opportunities of rapid and fruitful exercise.

β. 1475 Bk. Noblesse 56 The noble and fructufulle examples of the noble cenatours.1548 Order of Communion sig. A.iii^v His moste fruictfull and gloryous passion.1554 D. Lindsay Dialog Experience & Courteour l. 4788 in Wks. (1931) I Lat thay y^t fructfull fysche [i.e. the Kirk] eschaip thare handis.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	fruitful
释义	fruitfuladj. Brit. /ˈfruːtf(ᵿ)l/, U.S. /ˈfrutf(ə)l/ Forms: α. (see fruit n.). β. Middle English–1600s fructfull, (Middle English fructufulle), 1500s fruictfull. Etymology: < fruit n. + -ful suffix. 1. Productive of fruit. Of trees, etc.: Bearing plenty of fruit. Of soils, etc.: Fertile. Of rain, etc.: Causing fertility. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > productiveness > [adjective] bearinglOE fruitfula1300 plenteousc1325 fructuousa1382 birthful?c1475 fertile1481 broodya1522 yielding1556 foisonous1570 procreant1588 generative1597 yieldy1598 childing1600 seedful1605 thankful1610 foisonable1613 prolifical1615 fecundous1630 feracious1637 prolific1653 fetiferous1654 floriferous1656 productive1672 fœtant1678 spawning1682 uberousa1706 populous?1789 productible1830 grateful1832 resultful1833 genetic1838 tumid1840 polyphorous1858 generant1875 proliferent1920 the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by good growth > [adjective] > fruitful or fertile fruitfula1300 fructive14.. frugiferous1633 pregnant1669 the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > soil qualities > [adjective] > fertile or rich goodOE fruitfula1300 gladc1420 unlean?1440 richa1522 batwell1534 battle?1542 luxuriant?c1550 yielding1556 gleby1566 yieldable1577 hearty1580 yieldy1598 liking1600 well-natured1600 lusty1601 growthsome1610 thankful1610 pregnant1615 in heart1626 grateful1832 fatty1855 the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > fruit or reproductive product > plant that bears fruit > [adjective] > bearing fruit or fruitful fruitfula1300 birthel-treea1325 fructified14.. fructive14.. fructuosec1440 fructifiable1623 fructiferous1632 frugiferous1633 frugiferent1656 pregnant1669 prolific1738 fruiting1778 fruited1786 fruitening1845 fructificative1887 the world > plants > by growth or development > [adjective] > characterized by or causing growth vegetating1605 fruitful1649 germinative1707 the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by good growth > [adjective] > causing fertility or fruitfulness fruitful1649 a1300 E.E. Psalter cxlviii. 9 Tries fruitefulle and cedres alle. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xiv. 61 Þir hilles er riȝt fruytfull. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Neh. ix. 25 Vynyardes, oyl~garden, and many frutefull trees. 1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors v. f. 63 Claye..is not so fruitfull as marle. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III v. ii. 8 The..bore, That spoild your somer-fieldes, and fruitfull vines. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xix. vii. 23 Such seeds..must be all throughly dried before they be..fruitfull. 1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar iii. xiv. 49 The fruitfull Nilus..filling all the trenches to make a plenty of corn and fruits. 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World x. 293 The Tree hath usually 3 fruitful Branches. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 56 Heav'n invok'd with Vows for fruitful Rain. View more context for this quotation 1739 Lady Pomfret Let. I. xxii. 84 A very steep but fruitful hill..the vineyards.. crown the very summit. 1859 W. M. Thackeray Virginians xxiv His estate..was as large as Kent; and..infinitely more fruitful. 2. a. Productive of offspring; not barren; producing offspring in abundance, prolific. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > [adjective] bearingOE genderinga1398 multiplyinga1400 fecundc1420 broodya1522 fruitful1526 breeding1552 procreant1588 procreative1598 increasing1600 broodious1602 prolifical1608 conceptiousa1616 plenteousa1616 conceptive1630 feracious1637 propagatory1647 prolific1650 proliferous1654 propagative1654 progenial1664 teemful1755 progenitive1769 breedy1824 proligerous1836 progenital1837 philoprogenitive1857 eugenesic1864 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. FFFvii Lya was the more frutful and had more chyldren than Rachel. ?1527 L. Andrewe tr. Noble Lyfe Bestes sig. qi^v A Bremon is a fruteful fisshe that hathe moche sede. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iv. f. 162 Some [hens] are so fruitefull, as they kil them selues with laying. 1611 Bible (King James) Gen. i. 22 God blessed them, saying, Be fruitfull, and multiply. 1667 Duchess of Newcastle Life Duke of Newcastle i. 55 A young Woman, that might prove fruitful to him. a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 563 The fruitfullest marriage that has been known in our age. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VIII. 43 Nature..has rendered some animals surprizingly fruitful. 1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) III. xii. 111 That marriage proved happy and fruitful. 1871 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom (ed. 4) 367 The queen bee, when deprived of her wings before any communication with the male has taken place, will nevertheless lay fruitful eggs. b. Astrology. Favourable to fecundity. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > heavenly body > as influence on mankind > [adjective] > fruitful prolifical1647 fruitful1721 1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Fruitful Signs, [in Astrology] are the Signs Gemini, Cancer and Pisces. †3. Of a harvest, a crop, hence of a reward, a meal, etc.: Abundant, copious. Chiefly in Shakespeare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [adjective] goodeOE broadOE fullOE large?c1225 rifec1225 fulsomea1325 abundanta1382 plenteousa1382 copiousc1384 plentifula1400 ranka1400 aboundc1425 affluentc1425 aboundable?1440 seedy1440 manyfulc1450 ample1472 olda1500 richa1500 flowing1526 fertilent1535 wallingc1540 copy1546 abounding1560 fat1563 numbrous1566 good, great store1569 round1592 redundant1594 fruitful1604 cornucopian1609 much1609 plenty?a1610 pukka1619 redundant1621 uberant1622 swelling1628 uberous1633 numerousa1635 superfluent1648 full tide1649 lucky1649 redounding1667 numerose1692 bumper1836 prolific1890 proliferous1915 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. ii. 80 The fruitfull riuer in the eye. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) v. ii. 35 With a recompence more fruitfull Then their offence can weigh downe. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iv. iii. 150 One fruitful Meale would set mee too't. View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 77 Harvests heavy with their fruitful weight, Adorn our Fields. View more context for this quotation 4. transferred and figurative. †a. Productive of (material things), abounding in. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [adjective] > abundantly produced or producing fecundc1400 facund?1504 bountifula1538 redundant?1611 fertilea1616 fruitful1629 prolific1665 productive1672 spawning1682 tousy1895 1629 tr. S. Pelegromius Descr. S'hertogenbosh 1 This Boscage was..fruitfull of wild Deere. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 328 The whole Region is very fruitful of Barren Mountains. b. With reference to immaterial things: Prolific; abundantly productive. Const. in, of. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > productiveness > [adjective] > of career, genius, etc. fruitful1535 the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [adjective] > plentiful or fertile fertile1481 fruitful1535 milch1604 succulent1626 plump1635 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Coloss. i. A To be frutefull in all good workes. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 337 Golden days, fruitful of golden deeds. View more context for this quotation 1674 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 284 Martock in com. Somerset, ever fruitfull in good wits. 1744 J. Armstrong Art of preserving Health ii. 51 We curse not wine: The vile excess we blame; More fruitful, than th' accumulated board Of pain and misery. 1826 T. I. Wharton in Mem. Hist. Soc. Pennsylvania I. 134 His travels are fruitful of information. 1843 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Mexico III. vi. i. 15 His fruitful genius suggested an expedient. 1846 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 II. x. 406 A fruitful subject of contention. 1876 G. O. Trevelyan Life & Lett. Macaulay I. v. 289 The main incidents of that Session, so fruitful in great measures. 1885 Public Opinion 9 Jan. 37/2 Prince Albert Victor..has probably a long and fruitful career before him. 5. Productive of good results; beneficial, profitable, remunerative. Now only of actions, qualities, or the like; formerly also of concrete things. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > [adjective] fremefulc1000 i-duȝea1250 hendyc1275 begetela1325 profitablea1325 speedful1340 worth1340 speedyc1380 behoveful1382 fructuousc1386 fruitfulc1386 vailable1390 availantc1420 availingc1420 commodious1420 commodous?1440 available1474 behovablea1475 advantageousc1485 profitly1485 beneficiala1513 advantageable1548 sanative1548 gainful1555 vantageable1570 vantageous?1572 gainy1573 comfortable1576 conducent1578 advantageous1591 bootful1594 availful1598 conducible?1611 commoditous1621 conducing1624 conduceful1635 proficuousa1642 proficaciousa1660 beneficenta1676 conducive1710 benefactory1744 benignant1791 sanatorya1832 beneficiary1836 c1386 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale ⁋36 And this is fruitful penance ayenst tho three thinges, in which we wrathen our Lord Jesu Christ. c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 228 Ydelnesse & ese, wyth-oute fruytfull occupacyoun. ?1504 W. Atkinson tr. Thomas à Kempis Ful Treat. Imytacyon Cryste (Pynson) i. xxv. 178 Holye redynge of frutefull doctrine. 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique ii. lxi. 401 The fruitfullest thing that can be kept about a countrie house is Bees. 1640 J. Yorke Union of Honour 4 Robert with his followers obtained a fruitfull possession in those parts. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 303. ¶4 Instances of the same great and fruitful Invention. 1867 A. Barry Life & Wks. Sir C. Barry ix. 303 It had the opportunities of rapid and fruitful exercise. β. 1475 Bk. Noblesse 56 The noble and fructufulle examples of the noble cenatours.1548 Order of Communion sig. A.iii^v His moste fruictfull and gloryous passion.1554 D. Lindsay Dialog Experience & Courteour l. 4788 in Wks. (1931) I Lat thay y^t fructfull fysche [i.e. the Kirk] eschaip thare handis. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1300
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