Word Meanings - PROLIFIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Proliferous. (more info) pro for, forward + the root of alere to nourish) + facere to make. 1. Having the quality of generating; producing young or fruit; generative; fruitful; productive; -- applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing
Additional info about word: PROLIFIC
Proliferous. (more info) pro for, forward + the root of alere to nourish) + facere to make. 1. Having the quality of generating; producing young or fruit; generative; fruitful; productive; -- applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing young, etc.; -- usually with the implied idea of frequent or numerous production; as, a prolific tree, female, and the like. 2. Serving to produce; fruitful of results; active; as, a prolific brain; a controversy prolific of evil.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PROLIFIC)
- Fertile
- Rich
- luxuriant
- teeming
- productive
- exuberant
- causative
- conducive
- pregnant
- fraught
- prolific
- fecund
- fruitful
- ingenious
- inventive
- Fruitful
- Productive
- effectual
- useful
- successful
- fertile
- abundant
- plenteous
- plentiful
- Pregnant
- Procreant
- generative
- significant
- replete
- with child
- enceinte
- efficient
- Teeming
- Present
- overflowing
- swarming
- multitudinous
- numerous
Related words: (words related to PROLIFIC)
- CHILDSHIP
The state or relation of being a child. - OVERFLOWINGLY
In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle. - INVENTIVE
Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; as, an inventive head or genius. Dryden. -- In*vent"ive*ly, adv. -- In*vent"ive*ness, n. - INGENIOUSNESS
The quality or state of being ingenious; ingenuity. - CHILDISHNESS
The state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect. - 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. - CHILDED
Furnished with a child. - CHILDBIRTH
The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor. Jer. Taylor. - PRESENT
one, in sight or at hand, p. p. of praeesse to be before; prae before 1. Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent. These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. John xiv. 25. - PRESENTIVE
Bringing a conception or notion directly before the mind; presenting an object to the memory of imagination; -- distinguished from symbolic. How greatly the word "will" is felt to have lost presentive power in the last three centuries. Earle. -- - PRESENTANEOUS
Ready; quick; immediate in effect; as, presentaneous poison. Harvey. - 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. - CHILDISH
1. Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child. "Childish innocence." Macaulay. 2. Peurile; trifling; weak. Methinks that simplicity in her countenance is rather childish than innocent. Addison. Note: Childish, as applied tc persons who - PRESENTLY
1. At present; at this time; now. The towns and forts you presently have. Sir P. Sidney. 2. At once; without delay; forthwith; also, less definitely, soon; shortly; before long; after a little while; by and by. Shak. And presently the fig tree - FRAUGHTAGE
Freight; loading; cargo. Shak. - CHILD STUDY
A scientific study of children, undertaken for the purpose of discovering the laws of development of the body and the mind from birth to manhood. - 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. - SWARM
To climb a tree, pole, or the like, by embracing it with the arms and legs alternately. See Shin. At the top was placed a piece of money, as a prize for those who could swarm up and seize it. W. Coxe. - OVERFLOWING
An overflow; that which overflows; exuberance; copiousness. He was ready to bestow the overflowings of his full mind on anybody who would start a subject. Macaulay. - CAUSEFUL
Having a cause. - GODCHILD
One for whom a person becomes sponsor at baptism, and whom he promises to see educated as a Christian; a godson or goddaughter. See Godfather. - INNUMEROUS
Innumerable. Milton. - 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; - RETROGENERATIVE
Begetting young by retrocopulation. - 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. - ESTEEM
1. To set a value on; to appreciate the worth of; to estimate; to value; to reckon. Then he forsook God, which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. Deut. xxxii. 15. Thou shouldst esteem his censure and authority to be of - MISESTEEM
Want of esteem; disrespect. Johnson. - NONPRESENTATION
Neglect or failure to present; state of not being presented.