单词 | fruitful |
释义 | fruitful (once / 754 pages) adj When something is fruitful, it's productive — but you don't have to produce fruit in order to be fruitful. You could have a fruitful trip to the mall if you come home with a slew of snappy new outfits. There's a famous line from the Bible: "Be fruitful and multiply." That gives you a pretty good sense of the word: fruitful activity multiplies or adds to what's already there, producing more of something. A couple is fruitful if they have children: the more children, the more fruitful. An artist is fruitful if they create a lot of artwork. A business is fruitful if it creates profits and expands. Anything fruitful is productive: it grows and produces, much like a fruit tree. WORD FAMILYfruitful: fruitfuler, fruitfulest, fruitfully, fruitfulness, unfruitful+/fruit: fruitage, fruited, fruiterer, fruitful, fruiting, fruitless, fruitlet, fruits, fruity/fruitage: fruitages/fruiterer: fruiterers/fruitless: fruitlessly, fruitlessness/fruitlet: fruitlets/fruity: fruitier, fruitiest, fruitily/unfruitful: unfruitfully USAGE EXAMPLESRanganathan’s attempts to get his guests to open up are always fruitful. The Guardian(Dec 29, 2016) He said he was hopeful that the meeting would be fruitful. BBC(Dec 19, 2016) He created “Star” with Tom Donaghy, a veteran writer for television crime and legal shows, and perhaps the partnership hasn’t been as fruitful. New York Times(Dec 13, 2016) adj productive or conducive to producing in abundance be fruitful and multiply Syn|Ant fertile capable of reproducing baccate, bacciferous, berriedproducing or bearing berries blue-fruitedbearing blue fruit bountiful, plentifulproducing in abundance breedingproducing offspring or set aside especially for producing offspring dark-fruitedbearing dark fruit fat, fertile, productive, richmarked by great fruitfulness generative, procreative, reproductiveproducing new life or offspring high-yieldyielding a large amount of agricultural or industrial production oval-fruitedbearing oval fruit fertile, prolificbearing in abundance especially offspring red-fruitedbearing red fruit round-fruitedbearing round fruit small-fruitedbearing small fruit productiveproducing or capable of producing (especially abundantly) unfruitful not fruitful; not conducive to abundant production infertile, sterile, unfertileincapable of reproducing abortive, stillborn, unsuccessfulfailing to accomplish an intended result acarpousproducing no fruit childlesswithout offspring |
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