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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
fruitful
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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▪ 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 analysis more fruitful.
▪ Aren't there cheaper and more fruitful ways of promoting harmony between nations?
▪ The contact with Corso proved more fruitful.
▪ Basic needs theorists argue that it is more fruitful to stress results rather than inputs in order to measure the adequacy of development policy.
▪ It may be more fruitful to create a utopian, and as yet unrealized, vision to hold before our eyes.
▪ The assumption is that it is relatively more fruitful to regard our conformity, rather than our criminality, as problematic.
▪ The following are a few ideas that can help to make your practice more fruitful.
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▪ The most fruitful studies have been based on calculated energy levels.
▪ It was certainly one of the most fruitful and continuous debates that the West has ever known.
▪ You know that the best, most fruitful part of your life is over.
▪ McQueen's most fruitful period in films had been in the sixties while Dustin was still unknown outside off-Broadway.
▪ The next two years were probably the most fruitful of Scott's public life.
▪ At Stratford the Royal Shakespeare Company enjoyed its most fruitful period in years.
▪ The most fruitful procedure might well be to seek lines of explanation other than those associated with the notion of prestige.
▪ Cohn Tudge: Thus began one of the most fruitful working partnerships in modern biology.
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▪ This therefore appears to be a very fruitful area for research, with obvious implications for individuals and for the organization.
▪ And his thought was very fruitful: fore-shadowing differential and integral calculus, he put forward the useful idea of a limit.
▪ The cottages had proved to be a very fruitful searching ground.
▪ Searching for the elusive final straw is not a very fruitful activity.
▪ Looked at from this perspective, however, the distinction itself is not a very fruitful one.
▪ This wide variety of intervals is an important factor in making this series very fruitful in melodic potential.
▪ Glasgow has developed a very fruitful relationship with one of the world's most gifted directors.
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▪ Relations with the LEAs are also a fruitful source of tensions and confusions at the moment.
▪ Annual reports and accounts were a fruitful source of information.
▪ What did provide a fruitful source of conversation at dinner was the table setting.
▪ Architecture Coins are one of our most fruitful sources of information for the appearance of ancient buildings.
▪ Descriptive memoirs exist for many of the maps and these can be a fruitful source of information on mineral occurrences.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ If the talks prove fruitful, the working groups will start bargaining in May.
▪ Mr. Baker and I have had a very fruitful discussion.
▪ So far, the investigation has not been very fruitful.
▪ This was one of the most fruitful debates of the conference.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And how fruitful it was - our valley.
▪ Basic needs theorists argue that it is more fruitful to stress results rather than inputs in order to measure the adequacy of development policy.
▪ His critical judgments about quantitative sociology also are not sufficiently illuminating at a craft level to make quantitative analysis more fruitful.
▪ Hopefully the book will help you not only to identify the polarities but also to see the means of fruitful reconciliation.
▪ It was certainly one of the most fruitful and continuous debates that the West has ever known.
▪ Lacking its tumultuously fruitful influence, our mental lives would be almost as barren as the moon.
▪ This process is known as elaboration, and involves a fruitful interaction between theory and data.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fruitful

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 and replenish the earth.
--Gen. i. 28.

[Nature] By disburdening grows More fruitful.
--Milton.

The great fruitfulness of the poet's fancy.
--Addison.

Syn: Fertile; prolific; productive; fecund; plentiful; rich; abundant; plenteous. See Fertile.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fruitful

c.1300, of trees, from fruit + -ful. Related: Fruitfully; fruitfulness. Of animals or persons from early 16c.; of immaterial things from 1530s.

Wiktionary
fruitful

a. 1 Favourable to the growth of fruit or useful vegetation; fertile; not barren. 2 Being productive in any sense; yielding benefits.

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

  2. 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.