FRUITFUL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fruitful mean? 

• FRUITFUL (adjective)
  The adjective FRUITFUL has 1 sense:

1. productive or conducive to producing in abundance

  Familiarity information: FRUITFUL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRUITFUL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Productive or conducive to producing in abundance

Context example:

be fruitful and multiply

Similar:

baccate; bacciferous; berried (producing or bearing berries)

blue-fruited (bearing blue fruit)

bountiful; plentiful (producing in abundance)

breeding (producing offspring or set aside especially for producing offspring)

dark-fruited (bearing dark fruit)

fat; fertile; productive; rich (marked by great fruitfulness)

generative; procreative; reproductive (producing new life or offspring)

high-yield (yielding a large amount of agricultural or industrial production)

oval-fruited (bearing oval fruit)

fertile; prolific (bearing in abundance especially offspring)

red-fruited (bearing red fruit)

round-fruited (bearing round fruit)

small-fruited (bearing small fruit)

Also:

fertile (capable of reproducing)

productive (producing or capable of producing (especially abundantly))

Antonym:

unfruitful (not fruitful; not conducive to abundant production)

Derivation:

fruitfulness (the quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth)

 Context examples 

I resolved in my future conduct to redeem the past; and I can say with honesty that my resolve was fruitful of some good.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

While a poor fossil record is a challenge that researchers commonly face, the site in Turkey is particularly fruitful for the research.

(Fossil discovery adds to understanding of how geological changes affected evolution of mammalian life, National Science Foundation)

It is about one third as large as the Isle of Wight, and extremely fruitful: it is governed by the head of a certain tribe, who are all magicians.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I carry them with me in my country walks, and where I see a fruitful nook I thrust one deep with the end of my cane.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Now, although I had not received any express encouragement as yet, I fancied that I saw in the two little sisters, and particularly in Miss Lavinia, an intensified enjoyment of this new and fruitful subject of domestic interest, a settling down to make the most of it, a disposition to pet it, in which there was a good bright ray of hope.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

In the spacecraft's extended mission in 2013, it lost its ability to precisely stare at its original target area, but a brilliant fix. created a second life for the telescope that is proving scientifically fruitful.

(Kepler Confirms 100+ Exoplanets During Its K2 Mission, NASA)

Via a NASA-led citizen science project, eight people with no formal training in astrophysics helped discover what could be a fruitful new place to search for planets outside our solar system – a large disk of gas and dust encircling a star known as a circumstellar disk.

(A Potential New Hunting Ground for Exoplanets, NASA)

Of the Alps and Pyrenees, with their pine forests and their vices, they might give a faithful delineation; and Italy, Switzerland, and the south of France might be as fruitful in horrors as they were there represented.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Five years after Jo's wedding, one of these fruitful festivals occurred, a mellow October day, when the air was full of an exhilarating freshness which made the spirits rise and the blood dance healthily in the veins.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Golbasto Momarem Evlame Gurdilo Shefin Mully Ully Gue, most mighty Emperor of Lilliput, delight and terror of the universe, whose dominions extend five thousand blustrugs (about twelve miles in circumference) to the extremities of the globe; monarch of all monarchs, taller than the sons of men; whose feet press down to the centre, and whose head strikes against the sun; at whose nod the princes of the earth shake their knees; pleasant as the spring, comfortable as the summer, fruitful as autumn, dreadful as winter: his most sublime majesty proposes to the man-mountain, lately arrived at our celestial dominions, the following articles, which, by a solemn oath, he shall be obliged to perform:—

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)