fruitful
Adjective
- Producing abundantly; successful in producing results.
- productive or conducive to producing in abundance
- "be fruitful and multiply"
Adj
- Favourable to the growth of fruit or useful vegetation; not barren.
- Being productive in any sense; yielding benefits.
Examples
- His patient strategy proved fruitful, leading to multiple high-scoring Words With Friends plays.
- The extra work in the office turned out to be fruitful after all—I got promoted
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English fruitefull, equivalent to fruit + -ful. Compare Dutch vruchtvol, German fruchtvoll, Swedish fruktfull.
Synonyms
batful, fertile, fructive, fructuous, fruitful, fruitious, pregnant, productive, prolific, thriving, voluminous, yielding, yieldly
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 14
fruitful: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordfruitful: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
fruitful: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary