Definitions

loamy

[loh-mee] / ˈloʊ mi /

ADJECTIVE

earthlike

Synonyms

WEAK

earthen terrestrial

ADJECTIVE

fertile

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 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

ADJECTIVE

proliferous

Synonyms

WEAK

abundant arable bearing black bountiful breeding breedy bringing forth childing fecund feracious flowering flowing with milk and honey fruitful generative gravid hebetic lush luxuriant plenteous plentiful pregnant procreant producing productive proliferant prolific puberal pubescent rank rich spawning teeming uberous vegetative virile with child yielding

Example Sentences

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Compost adds nutrients, attracts beneficial microbes and — perhaps most important — helps create a loamy soil that more easily absorbs and retains the water it receives.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2023

On some nights, when the wind drifted south, he could smell the cattle, their dung giving off a lush, loamy scent.

From New York Times • May 26, 2022

Nestled along coastal waterways, which created fertile loamy soil, the Low Country is abundant with fresh seafood, produce, and grains.

From Salon • Jan. 28, 2022

The wine comes off a bit hot with sweetened chocolate and overripe black fruits that mingle with loamy soils on the palate.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 16, 2021

The words come back to me: She thrust her sword into the loamy earth.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

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