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Definitions

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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The researchers then bred the mice and confirmed that they were fertile.

From Science Daily • Apr. 7, 2026

Breeding season runs from mid- to late winter, and wolves are fertile only once a year — right around Valentine’s Day.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026

Food stocks provide fertile ground for this exercise.

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026

Cities are squalid crime hives that need to be tamed or abandoned in the Sheridanverse, whereas small towns and Western vistas are quaint canvases fertile with possibility.

From Salon • Mar. 23, 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