fruitful

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fruitful - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Fruitful \Fruit"ful\, a.
     Full of fruit; producing fruit abundantly; bearing results;
     prolific; fertile; liberal; bountiful; as, a fruitful tree,
     or season, or soil; a fruitful wife. -- Fruit"ful*ly, adv.
     -- Fruit"ful*ness, n.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth.
                                                    --Gen. i. 28.
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           [Nature] By disburdening grows
           More fruitful.                           --Milton.
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           The great fruitfulness of the poet's fancy. --Addison.
  
     Syn: Fertile; prolific; productive; fecund; plentiful; rich;
          abundant; plenteous. See Fertile.
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fruitful - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  fruitful
      adj 1: productive or conducive to producing in abundance; "be
             fruitful and multiply" [ant: unfruitful]

fruitful - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  40 Moby Thesaurus words for "fruitful":
     abundant, advantageous, beneficial, blooming, bounteous, bountiful,
     bursting, bursting out, copious, creative, effective, exuberant,
     fecund, fertile, flourishing, fructiferous, fructuous, generous,
     lush, luxuriant, luxurious, plenteous, plentiful, pregnant,
     productive, profitable, proliferous, prolific, rewarding, rich,
     seminal, successful, superabundant, swarming, teeming, thriving,
     uberous, useful, well-spent, worthwhile