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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

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

Noun.

fruitful

and multiply and replenish the earth.

Gen. i. 28.

[Nature] By disburdening grows
More

fruitful

Milton.

Syn. – Fertile; prolific; productive; fecund; plentiful; rich; abundant; plenteous. See

, a.

Very productive; producing fruit in abundance; as fruitful soil; a fruitful tree; a fruitful season.

Prolific; bearing children; not barren.

Be fruitful, and multiply - Gen. 1.

Plenteous; abounding in any thing.

Productive of any thing; fertile; as fruitful in expedients.

Producing in abundance; generating; as fruitful in crimes.