fruitful
- adjective
- /ˈfruːt.fəl/
- So I can live a long and fruitful life?
- prove fruitful
- a fruitful collaboration
- a fruitful discussion
There are years which are fruitful and the years which are barren.
- There are years which are fruitful and the years which are barren.
- What paths of exploration have been most fruitful or enjoyable?
- This is a way to kind of bring that into this, you know, fruitful interaction.
- And they go out and try to find a more fruitful source of narcissistic supply.
- That kind of quality leadership that leads to successful, great, positive, fruitful things, all right?
Examples
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If the meeting when I'm there is not fruitful, I will respectfully leave the meeting.
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Examining this possibility could be a fruitful avenue for future studies.
Academic text (1999) -
So we're at the beginning of what I hope will be a long, fruitful research journey.
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So it was a really fruitful time for me.
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Some places have been, have been more fruitful than others.
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I will live a fruitful life.
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Right now is the greatest, most fruitful, most optimistic time in the history of the world.
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In recent decades, the concept of "place attachment" has become a fruitful avenue for studying parks.
Academic text (2011) -
What paths of exploration have been most fruitful or enjoyable?
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I hope this new collaboration will lead to many fruitful discoveries in our field.
Synonyms
Giving large amounts of crops or fruit
A mind that has many new ideas
Producing many young animals, fruit, or flowers
Antonyms
How Fruitful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word fruitful comes from fruit, which originally meant 'produce' or 'result', and the ending -ful, meaning 'full of'. So something fruitful is 'full of results' and produces good outcomes.