fruitful
Syllables: fruit·ful/ˈfɹuːtfl̩/
fruitful adjective: favourable to the growth of fruit or useful vegetation; not barren.
Adjective
fruitful (comparative more fruitful, superlative most fruitful)
- Favourable to the growth of fruit or useful vegetation; not barren.
- And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 1:22
- Antonyms:
- barren, infertile, unfruitful
- Being productive in any sense; yielding benefits.
- The extra work in the office turned out to be fruitful after all—I got promoted
- So, given that Claude is not conscious, what are we to make of Claude’s constitution? Perhaps the most fruitful way to think about it is as an 84-page character sheet for a role-playing game.2026 June 3, Ted Chiang, “No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the...
- Synonyms:
- productive, prolific, pregnant, batful, luxuriant, fertile, thriving, yielding, yieldly, voluminous
- Antonyms:
- unfruitful
fruitful meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
fruitful in Hindi
- favorable to the growth
- सुफल suphal
- productive, yielding benefits
- सफल saphal, सुफल suphal
fruitful in Tamil
- செழிப்பான, நற்பயனளிக்கும், பயனுள்ள
fruitful in Marathi
- फलदायी, फळदायी
fruitful in Urdu
- بار آور, ہرا بھرا, کامیاب, نتیجہ خیز, پھولا پھلا, زرخیز
More languagesFewer languages
- fruitful in Bengali
- সফল śophol
- fruitful in Telugu
- ఫలవంతము phalavantamu
- fruitful in Malayalam
- ഫലദായക, ഫലം നൽകുന്ന, ഫലമുണ്ടാകുന്ന, ഫലദായിയായ
- fruitful in Kannada
- ಫಲಪ್ರದವಾಗಿದೆ, ಫಲಪ್ರದ
- fruitful in Punjabi
- ਸਫਲ saphal
- fruitful in Gujarati
- સફળ saphaḷ
- fruitful in Odia
- ସମୃଦ୍ଧ samruddha
- fruitful in Sanskrit
- सफल saphala
- fruitful in Assamese
- সফল xophol
- fruitful in Nepali
- फलदायी
- fruitful in Arabic
- مثمر muṯmir
Examples of fruitful in a sentence
- Their collaboration formed a fruitful junction of ideas.
- If none of these methods prove fruitful, check the dip tube.
- Unfortunately this aspect of ammonitology turns many away from an exciting and fruitful field of research.
Synonyms of fruitful
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Antonyms
Forms of fruitful
| comparative | more fruitful |
|---|---|
| superlative | most fruitful |
| alternative form | fruitfull |
Origin of fruitful
From Middle English fruitefull, equivalent to fruit + -ful. Compare Dutch vruchtvol, German fruchtvoll, Swedish fruktfull.
Words formed from fruitful
Questions about fruitful
- What does fruitful mean?
- Fruitful means favourable to the growth of fruit or useful vegetation; not barren.
- What is fruitful in Hindi?
- Fruitful in Hindi is सुफल (suphal), सफल (saphal). See Fruitful meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is fruitful?
- Fruitful is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce fruitful?
- Fruitful is pronounced /ˈfɹuːtfl̩/.
Words near fruitful in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: fruitful (page history and authors); fruitful (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fruitful (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fruitful (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); সফল (Bengali) (page history and authors); fruitful (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); fruitful (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ਸਫਲ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); સફળ (Gujarati) (page history and authors); ସମୃଦ୍ଧ (Odia) (page history and authors); সফল (Assamese) (page history and authors); fruitful (Nepali, 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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