fertile
UK/ˈfɜːtaɪl//ˈfɝːtəl/
fertile adjective: of land, etc.: capable of growing abundant crops; productive.
Adjective
fertile (comparative more fertile, superlative most fertile)
- Of land, etc.: capable of growing abundant crops; productive.
- Taking advantage of the river's fertile floodplain, residents of the town of Skardu cultivate apricot, apple, and peach orchards in the sandy soil.1987 October, Galen Rowell, “Baltistan: The 20th Century Comes to Shangri-la”, in National Geographic, volume 172, number 4, page 529
- Synonyms:
- fat
- Of one's imagination, etc.: active, productive, prolific.
- Synonyms:
- productive, prolific, pregnant, batful, luxuriant, fruitful, thriving, yielding, yieldly, voluminous
- Capable of reproducing; fecund, fruitful.
- Most women at the age of fifty are not fertile.
- Synonyms:
- childing
- Capable of developing past the egg stage.
- Not itself fissile, but able to be converted into a fissile material by irradiation in a reactor.
- There are two basic fertile materials: uranium-238 and thorium-232.
Proper noun capitalized: Fertile
Fertile
fertile meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
fertile in Hindi
- of land, etc.: capable of growing abundant crops
- उपजाऊ upjāū
- capable of reproducing
- उर्वर urvar
fertile in Tamil
- வளம் மிக்க, சத்துள்ள, செழுமையான
fertile in Marathi
- सुपीक
fertile in Urdu
- of land, etc.: capable of growing abundant crops
- زرخیز zarxaiz
More languagesFewer languages
- fertile in Bengali
- উর্বর
- fertile in Malayalam
- സമൃദ്ധമായ, മുളയ്ക്കുന്ന, ഉത്പാദനക്ഷമതയുള്ള, ഫലഭൂയിഷ്ഠമായ
- fertile in Kannada
- ಎರುಬುಳ್ಳ, ಈಟುಳ್ಳ, ಮೊಗೆ, ಫಲವತ್ತಾದ
- fertile in Punjabi
- ਸੂਲ਼ sūḷ
- fertile in Gujarati
- ફળદ્રુપ
- fertile in Odia
- ଉର୍ବର
- fertile in Arabic
- خَصِب ḵaṣib
- fertile in Malay
- subur
- fertile in Indonesian
- subur
- fertile in Persian
- حاصلخیز, بارور bārvar, برور barvar
- fertile in Thai
- อุดมสมบูรณ์, อุดม ù-dom, สมบูรณ์ sǒm-buun
- fertile in Vietnamese
- màu mỡ
Examples of fertile in a sentence
- The golden-spermed dragon was the most fertile animal in the land.
- That exuberant crop quickly impoverishes any fertile soil.
- For in the Church of God sometimes it cometh to pass as in over-battle grounds, the fertile disposition whereof is good. ― Hooker.
Synonyms of fertile
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Antonyms
Forms of fertile
| comparative | more fertile |
|---|---|
| superlative | most fertile |
Origin of fertile
From Middle English, from Middle French fertile, from Old French fertile, from Latin fertilis (“fruitful, fertile”), from ferō (“to bear, carry”).
Words formed from fertile
Questions about fertile
- What does fertile mean?
- Fertile means of land, etc.: capable of growing abundant crops; productive.
- What is fertile in Hindi?
- Fertile in Hindi is उपजाऊ (upjāū), उर्वर (urvar). See Fertile meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is fertile?
- Fertile can be an adjective or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce fertile?
- Fertile is pronounced /ˈfɜːtaɪl/ (UK).
Words near fertile in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: fertile (page history and authors); Fertile (page history and authors); fertile (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fertile (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fertile (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fertile (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fertile (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਸੂਲ਼ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); fertile (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fertile (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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