(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 23:47:37

Ftuit"ful (?), a.

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, n.

Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth.
Gen. i. 28.

[Nature] By disburdening grows
More fruitful.
Milton.

The great fruitfulness of the poet's fancy.
Addison.

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

 

© Webster 1913.

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