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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
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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

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

The lines of vegetation along their banks are like oases, fertile places where people can farm in an otherwise almost lifeless land.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann