Definitions

fruitful

[froot-fuhl] / ˈfrut fəl /

ADJECTIVE

productive

Synonyms

STRONGEST

advantageous beneficial conducive effective profitable rewarding successful useful worthwhile

WEAK

abounding abundant blooming blossoming breeding childbearing childing copious fecund fertile flourishing flush fructiferous gainful plenteous plentiful profuse proliferant prolific propagating reproducing rich spawning well-spent

Antonyms

STRONGEST

disadvantageous unfavorable unhelpful unprofitable useless worthless

WEAK

barren impotent sterile unfruitful unproductive

Example Sentences

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"Fruitful collaboration with Toda's lab enabled us to make sense of that chaos during brain mapping."

From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2024

Fruitful Jobs is recruiting in 37 countries from South Africa to Kurdistan, Canada to Mongolia.

From BBC • Jun. 12, 2022

I did find a comparable organic vegan cereal, Fruitful O’s.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 10, 2020

Non-Grapefruit and Fruitful Non-Science Jag Bhalla is an entrepreneur and writer.

From Scientific American • Sep. 16, 2013

“Oh, you must mean Minli! That’s when this used to be called the Village of Fruitless Mountain. Now it’s called the Village of Fruitful Mountain.”

From "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon" by Grace Lin

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