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Word definitions for fruitful in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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. Be fruitful and multiply ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB more ▪ Let us see then whether realism can offer a more fruitful alternative. ▪ His critical judgments about quantitative sociology also are not sufficiently illuminating at a craft level to make quantitative ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Favourable to the growth of fruit or useful vegetation; fertile; not barren. 2 Being productive in any sense; yielding benefits.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, of trees, from fruit + -ful . Related: Fruitfully ; fruitfulness . Of animals or persons from early 16c.; of immaterial things from 1530s.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. productive or conducive to producing in abundance; "be fruitful and multiply" [ant: unfruitful ] productive of profit; "a profitable enterprise"; "a fruitful meeting" [syn: profitable ]
Usage examples of fruitful.
And it follows from this that the baptized are enlightened by Christ as to the knowledge of truth, and made fruitful by Him with the fruitfulness of good works by the infusion of grace.
Cape Cod is worthwhile writing, values that are socially redeeming, a lifestyle that is simplified, relationships that are fruitful, a world view that makes sense, and diabetic maintenance that is effective, healthful, and constant.
But the fruitful field of scientific investigation into the greater antiquity of man opened by the eoliths of the Kent Plateau was buried along with Harrison.
Evolution, a natural religion and a rational Evolutionism may yet harmoniously unite in a higher and more fruitful marriage.
I plucked the rose, and then, as ever, I thought it the rarest I had ever gathered since I had laboured in the harvest of the fruitful fields of love.
The time was, therefore, very favorable for the projected expedition, which, if it did not accomplish its principal object, would at any rate be fruitful in discoveries, especially of natural productions, since Harding proposed to explore those dense forests of the Far West, which stretched to the extremity of the Serpentine Peninsula.
No craggy nor rockie places, nipt and blasted with sharpe windes, nor burnt with an vntemperate hotte Sunne, but vnder a sweet and pleasant temperature, in a moderate meane reioycing, betwixt two extreemes, the fields fruitful and without tillage and manuring, yeelding all commodities, warme hilles, greene woods and sweet coole shadowes.
Irishman the head of his intel ligence department and the result had been a relation ship as close as it was fruitful.
Dimly one felt the deep-seated trouble of the earth, the uneasy agitation of its members, the hidden tumult of its womb, demanding to be made fruitful, to reproduce, to disengage the eternal renascent germ of Life that stirred and struggled in its loins.
My large unjealous Loves, many yet one -- A grave good-morrow to your Graces, all, Fair tilth and fruitful seasons!
I believe only that we should make use of it as a working program, because the history of biological research proves it to have been a more effective and fruitful means of advancing knowledge than the vitalistic hypothesis.
Because there was no foresight to ensure continuity in the growth of institutions, there were these unpremeditated and often morbid growths, expressive of the accumulating discomfort and discontent and of the need for a more intimate, energetic and fruitful form of human association.
And there the arrowy eagle of the height Becomes the little bird that hops to feed, Glad of a crumb, for tempered appetite To make it wholesome blood and fruitful seed.
He digs holes at the four corners of the garden, and in them he buries such leaves as the ghost loves, so that the garden may have ghostly power and be fruitful.
Thus they seriously impaired the social and economic homogeneity, which the pioneer believed to be the essential quality of fruitful Americanism.