Word Meanings - FERTILE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Producing fruit or vegetation in abundance; fruitful; able to produce abundantly; prolific; fecund; productive; rich; inventive; as, fertile land or fields; a fertile mind or imagination. Though he in a fertile climate dwell. Shak. Capable of

Additional info about word: FERTILE

1. Producing fruit or vegetation in abundance; fruitful; able to produce abundantly; prolific; fecund; productive; rich; inventive; as, fertile land or fields; a fertile mind or imagination. Though he in a fertile climate dwell. Shak. Capable of producing fruit; fruit-bearing; as, fertile flowers. Containing pollen; -- said of anthers. 3. produced in abundance; plenteous; ample. Henceforth, my early care . . . Shall tend thee, and the fertile burden ease Of thy full branches. Milton. Syn. -- Fertile, Fruitful. Fertile implies the inherent power of production; fruitful, the act. The prairies of the West are fertile by nature, and are turned by cultivation into fruitful fields. The same distinction prevails when these words are used figuratively. A man of fertile genius has by nature great readiness of invention; one whose mind is fruitful has resources of thought and a readiness of application which enable him to think and act effectively.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FERTILE)

• Fat
• Corpulent
• fleshy
• brawny
• pursy
• rich
• luxuriant
• portly
• stout
• fertile
• unctuous
• obese
• oleaginous
• Fruitful
• Productive
• prolific
• pregnant
• fraught
• causative
• effectual
• useful
• successful
• abundant
• plenteous
• fecund
• plentiful
• efficient
• Rich
• Wealthy
• opulent
• affluent
• generous
• productive
• copious
• fruitful
• valuable
• costly
• high-flavored
• luscious
• vivid
• deep
• bright
• superb
• gorgeous

Related words: (words related to FERTILE)

• BRIGHT
  See I
• GORGEOUS
  Imposing through splendid or various colors; showy; fine; magnificent. Cloud-land, gorgeous land. Coleridge. Gogeous as the sun at midsummer. Shak. -- Gor"geous*ly, adv. -- Gor"geous*ness, n. (more info) luxurious; cf. OF. gorgias ruff,
• PLENTIFUL
  1. Containing plenty; copious; abundant; ample; as, a plentiful harvest; a plentiful supply of water. 2. Yielding abundance; prolific; fruitful. If it be a long winter, it is commonly a more plentiful year. Bacon. 3. Lavish; profuse; prodigal.
• CAUSATIVE
  1. Effective, as a cause or agent; causing. Causative in nature of a number of effects. Bacon. 2. Expressing a cause or reason; causal; as, the ablative is a causative case.
• VALUABLENESS
  The quality of being valuable.
• AFFLUENTNESS
  Great plenty.
• PREGNANT
  1. Being with young, as a female; having conceived; great with young; breeding; teeming; gravid; preparing to bring forth. 2. Heavy with important contents, significance, or issue; full of consequence or results; weighty; as, pregnant replies.
• FRAUGHTAGE
  Freight; loading; cargo. Shak.
• OLEAGINOUSNESS
  Oiliness. Boyle.
• PROLIFICATION
  Reproduction by the growth of a plant, or part of a plant, directly from an older one, or by gemmæ. (more info) 1. The generation of young.
• FECUNDIFY
  To make fruitful; to fecundate. Johnson.
• CORPULENT
  1. Very fat; obese. 2. Solid; gross; opaque. Holland. Syn. -- Stout; fleshy; bulky; obese. See Stout.
• LUSCIOUS
  1. Sweet; delicious; very grateful to the taste; toothsome; excessively sweet or rich. And raisins keep their luscious, native taste. Dryden. 2. Cloying; fulsome. He had a tedious, luscious way of talking. Jeffrey. 3. Gratifying a depraved sense;
• OBESENESS
  Quality of being obese; obesity.
• CAUSATIVELY
  In a causative manner.
• ABUNDANTLY
  In a sufficient degree; fully; amply; plentifully; in large measure.
• PORTLY
  1. Having a dignified port or mien; of a noble appearance; imposing. 2. Bulky; corpulent. "A portly personage." Dickens.
• PREGNANTLY
  In a pregnant manner; fruitfully; significantly.
• ABUNDANT
  Fully sufficient; plentiful; in copious supply; -- followed by in, rarely by with. "Abundant in goodness and truth." Exod. xxxiv. 6. Abundant number , a number, the sum of whose aliquot parts exceeds the number itself. Thus, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, the
• FECUND
  Fruitful in children; prolific. Graunt.
• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• INEFFICIENT
  1. Not efficient; not producing the effect intended or desired; inefficacious; as, inefficient means or measures. 2. Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or remiss; effecting little or nothing; as, inefficient workmen;
• CONGENEROUS
  Allied in origin or cause; congeneric; as, congenerous diseases. Sir T. Browne. -- Con*gen"er*ous*ness, n. Hallywell.
• UNFRUITFUL
  Not producing fruit or offspring; unproductive; infertile; barren; sterile; as, an unfruitful tree or animal; unfruitful soil; an unfruitful life or effort. -- Un*fruit"ful*ly, adv. -- Un*fruit"ful*ness, n.
• AUTOFECUNDATION
  Self-impregnation. Darwin.
• UNGENEROUSLY
  In an ungenerous manner.
• EMBRIGHT
  To brighten.
• UNSUCCESSFUL
  Not successful; not producing the desired event; not fortunate; meeting with, or resulting in, failure; unlucky; unhappy. -- Un`suc*cess"ful*ly, adv. -- Un`suc*cess"ful*ness, n.
• INFERTILELY
  In an infertile manner.