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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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There’s the rich, loamy aroma of the Sequoia forests, which feels like nature itself is breathing.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2024

It was filled with pine needles and loamy humus.

From Washington Post • Jun. 3, 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

Asters do best in loamy soil in full sun.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 27, 2021

He can feel heat and humidity rising from the loamy earth.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

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