childing

[chahyl-ding] / ˈtʃaɪl dɪŋ /

ADJECTIVE

fertile

Synonyms

STRONGEST

abundant arable fruitful lush productive rich

WEAK

bearing black bountiful breeding breedy bringing forth childbearing 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

ADJECTIVE

fruitful

Synonyms

STRONGEST

advantageous beneficial conducive effective profitable rewarding successful useful worthwhile

WEAK

abounding abundant blooming blossoming breeding childbearing copious fecund fertile flourishing flush fructiferous gainful plenteous plentiful profuse proliferant prolific propagating reproducing rich spawning well-spent

Antonyms

STRONGEST

disadvantageous unfavorable unhelpful unprofitable useless worthless

WEAK

barren impotent sterile unfruitful unproductive

ADJECTIVE

proliferous

Synonyms

WEAK

abundant arable bearing black bountiful breeding breedy bringing forth fecund feracious flowering flowing with milk and honey fruitful generative gravid hebetic loamy lush luxuriant plenteous plentiful pregnant procreant producing productive proliferant prolific puberal pubescent rank rich spawning teeming uberous vegetative virile with child yielding

Example Sentences

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But, said he, or it be long too she will bring forth by God His bounty and have joy of her childing for she hath waited marvellous long.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James

Why, I ate fruit a week after childing.

From The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

Travail and pain I sing— The bride on the childing bed, The dark man labouring at his rhymes, The ewe in the lambing shed.

From The Mountainy Singer by MacCathmhaoil, Seosamh

I have heard of retreating armies stopping and hazarding battle, rather than forsake a childing woman in her extremity, in countries not boasting of so enlightened a government as our own.

From The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland by McDougall, Margaret Moran Dixon

Travail and pain I sing— The bride on the childing bed, The dark man laboring at his rhymes, The eye in the lambing shed.

From Modern British Poetry by Untermeyer, Louis

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