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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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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

He described Guangdong as "fertile ground" for development, pledging to bring more digital services to the region and make its factories even more efficient.

From BBC • Feb. 24, 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

The region’s transformation from fertile woodland to eroded scrub or desert has been elucidated by paleobotanists and archaeologists.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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