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

Food stocks provide fertile ground for this exercise.

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026

As Ms. Shevchenko’s partner and escort, Mr. Robare honored Balanchine’s fertile inventions with ease and expertise.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

Vermont, where I teach political science, did not look like fertile ground for Jackson when he first ran for president.

From Salon • Feb. 23, 2026

When you cut down a tropical forest, the soil is rich and fertile for a while.

From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall

fertile

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