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prolific

Syllables: pro·li·ficUK/pɹəˈlɪf.ɪk//pɹəˈlɪf.ɪk/

prolific adjective: fertile; producing offspring or fruit in abundance, applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing young, etc.

Adjective

prolific (comparative more prolific, superlative most prolific)

  1. Fertile; producing offspring or fruit in abundance, applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing young, etc.
    Synonyms:
    fecund
  2. Similarly producing results or performing deeds in abundance.
    • However appealing Antibes may be to migrant authors, indigenous ones are relatively scarce. A notable exception is Jacques Audiberti, Antibes-born novelist and prolific playwright who wrote in the turn-of-the-century surrealist style, with titles that translate as Slaughter, or In Favour of...2007, Ted Jones, The French Riviera: A Literary Guide for Travellers, page 58
    • The most obvious beneficiary of the visitors' superiority was Frank Lampard. By the end of the night he was perched 13th in the list of England's most prolific goalscorers, having leapfrogged Sir Geoff Hurst to score his 24th and 25th international goals. No other player has managed more than the...2012 September 7, Dominic Fifield, “England start World Cup campaign with five-goal romp against Moldova”, in The Guardian
  3. Of a flower: from which another flower is produced.
  4. Copious; plentiful; abundant.
    • The prolific bird life around the Inlet was thinning out but grey rosellas and zebras and painted finches made the bush merry[.]1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 202

prolific meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

prolific in Tamil

நிறைய, மிகுநிறைவாக, விளைவு வளமிக்க, பெரும்பெருக்கு, இனப்பெருக்க வளமுள்ள

prolific in Urdu

فراواں, وافر, زرخیز

prolific in Bengali

প্রচুর সৃষ্টিশীল, ফলপ্রসূ, বেশি উৎপাদনশীল

prolific in Malayalam

സന്താനപുഷ്ടിയുള്ള, ഫലവത്തായ, സമൃദ്ധമായ, ഫലപുഷ്ടിയുള്ള
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prolific in Kannada
ಆರುವ, ತೀವುವ, ಯಥೇಚ್ಛವಾಗಿ ಹೊರತರುವ, ಸಮೃದ್ಧಿಯಾಗಿ ಉತ್ಪತ್ತಿ ಮಾಡುವ

Examples of prolific in a sentence

  • By the end of the night he was perched 13th in the list of England's most prolific goalscorers, having leapfrogged Sir Geoff Hurst to score his 24th and 25th international goals.2012 September 7, Dominic Fifield, “England start World Cup campaign with five-goal romp against Moldova”, in The Guardian:
  • A Chinese PhD student who is "one of the most prolific predators" in the UK has been sentenced to life with a minimum term of 24 years.2025 June 19, “Student who raped 10 women jailed for 24 years”, in bbc.com:

All 40 example sentences with prolific

Synonyms of prolific

Forms of prolific

comparativemore prolific
superlativemost prolific
alternative formprolifick

Origin of prolific

First use appears c. 1635. From French prolifique and its etymon Latin prōlificus, from prōlēs (“offspring”) + -ficus (“making”).

Words formed from prolific

Words that rhyme with prolific

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Questions about prolific

What does prolific mean?
Prolific means fertile; producing offspring or fruit in abundance, applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing young, etc.
What is prolific in Tamil?
Prolific in Tamil is நிறைய, மிகுநிறைவாக, விளைவு வளமிக்க. See Prolific meaning in Tamil.
How do you use prolific in a sentence?
By the end of the night he was perched 13th in the list of England's most prolific goalscorers, having leapfrogged Sir Geoff Hurst to score his 24th and 25th international goals.
What part of speech is prolific?
Prolific is an adjective.
How do you pronounce prolific?
Prolific is pronounced /pɹəˈlɪf.ɪk/ (UK).

Words near prolific in the dictionary

  1. proliferogenic
  2. proliferous
  3. proliferously
  4. proliferousness
  5. prolifers
  6. prolific
  7. prolificacies
  8. prolificacy
  9. prolifical
  10. prolifically
  11. prolificalness

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: prolific (page history and authors); prolific (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); prolific (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); prolific (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); prolific (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); prolific (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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