Definitions for fruitful
ˈfrut fəlfruit·ful

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. fruitfuladjective

   productive or conducive to producing in abundance

   "be fruitful and multiply"

WiktionaryRate this definition:2.5 / 2 votes

1. fruitfuladjective

   Favourable to the growth of fruit or useful vegetation; fertile; not barren.

2. fruitfuladjective

   Being productive in any sense; yielding benefits.

   The extra work in the office turned out to be fruitful after all - I got promoted

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Fruitfuladjective

   Etymology: fruit and full.

   1. Fertile; abundantly productive; liberal of product.

   If she continued cruel, he could no more sustain his life than the earth remain fruitful in the sun’s continual absence. Philip Sidney, b. ii.

   2. Actually bearing fruit.

   Adonis’ gardens,
   That one day bloom’d, and fruitful were the next. William Shakespeare.

   3. Prolifick; childbearing; not barren.

   Hear, nature, hear; dear goddess, hear a father!
   Suspend thy purpose, if thou did’st intend
   To make this creature fruitful:
   Into her womb convey sterility. William Shakespeare, King Lear.

   I have copied nature, making the youths amorous and the damsels fruitful. John Gay, the What d’ye Call it. Preface to.

   4. Plenteous; abounding in any thing.

   While you, my lord, the rural shades admire,
   And from Britannia’s publick posts retire,
   Me into foreign realms my fate conveys,
   Through nations fruitful of immortal lays. Addison.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Fruitfuladjective

   full of fruit; producing fruit abundantly; bearing results; prolific; fertile; liberal; bountiful; as, a fruitful tree, or season, or soil; a fruitful wife

How to pronounce fruitful?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

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   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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How to say fruitful in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of fruitful in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of fruitful in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of fruitful in a Sentence

1. Andreas Simic:

   Awaken each day with a plan, retire each day with a plan for the next, and you will know each day will be fruitful.” Andreas Simic

2. John Steinbeck:

   The fields were fruitful and starving men moved on the roads. The granaries were full and the children of the poor grew up rachitic.

3. John Hendrickson:

   We've got a pretty fruitful pipeline. When you look out I think over the next 2-1/2 years, 3 years we have about $1.2 billion of new products in our pipeline.

4. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:

   I have no problem with that, we did that a year ago, it was actually fruitful. It could happen again.

5. Energy Minister Panos Skourletis:

   If we go to elections soon, in three or four weeks if this option is chosen, obviously a party congress cannot be fruitful.

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