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fertile

[fur-tl, -tahyl] / ˈfɜr tl, -taɪl /
ADJECTIVE
ready to bear, produce
Synonyms
STRONGEST
abundant arable fruitful lush productive rich
WEAK
bearing black bountiful breeding breedy bringing forth childbearing childing fecund feracious flowering flowing with milk and honey generative gravid hebetic loamy luxuriant plenteous plentiful pregnant procreant producing proliferant prolific puberal pubescent rank spawning teeming uberous vegetative virile with child yielding
Antonyms
STRONGEST
barren impotent sparse unfruitful unproductive
WEAK
fruitless infertile sterile useless

Example Sentences

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After 60 days, all that remains is a rich, fertile soil.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

Senescence happens whether or not the eggs are fertile and can’t be stopped by relocating the eggs.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

In the wake of double haymakers inflicted by the pandemic and the dual writers’ and actors’ strikes in 2023, the ground is fertile for the AI revolution to seed all kinds of second-rate content.

From Salon • Mar. 26, 2026

Food stocks provide fertile ground for this exercise.

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026

The shoreline itself is swampy, but not far from the coast the country rises into a lush, fertile plateau.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.