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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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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

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

Kendra smelled the fertile aroma that had accompanied the Fairy Queen.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

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