fertile

Adjective

Capable of producing offspring, seeds, or abundant growth; productive.
capable of reproducing

Adjective Satellite

intellectually productive
bearing in abundance especially offspring
marked by great fruitfulness
- "fertile farmland"

Adj

Of land, etc.: capable of growing abundant crops; productive.
Of one's imagination, etc.: active, productive, prolific.
Capable of reproducing; fecund, fruitful.
Capable of developing past the egg stage.
Not itself fissile, but able to be converted into a fissile material by irradiation in a reactor.

Examples

His FERTILE mind always found a way to turn a seemingly bad rack into a high-scoring play.
Most women at the age of fifty are not fertile.
There are two basic fertile materials: uranium-238 and thorium-232.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English, from Middle French fertile, from Old French fertile, from Latin fertilis (“fruitful, fertile”), from ferō (“I bear, carry”).

Synonyms

fat, fecund, productive, prolific, rich, batful, childing, fertile, fruitful, pregnant, thriving, voluminous, yielding, yieldly

Antonyms

sterile, barren, infertile

Scrabble Score: 10

fertile: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
fertile: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
fertile: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 11

fertile: valid Words With Friends Word