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prolific

prolific

41 7.2
Making many creative works such as books, paintings, or inventions
  • adjective
  • /prəˈlɪfɪk/
translation icon : prolífico
  • Dorothy Parker also described herself as a child who was a prolific reader.
  • a prolific writer
  • a prolific author
  • a prolific poet

He was like a traveling mathematician, very, very prolific, very smart man.

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Examples

  • And what's amazing is he's had a very prolific career.

  • Her output has been prolific, and her work has been widely acclaimed in India and Pakistan.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • But yes, you are, you know, prolific and how often you post.

  • You are very prolific in your with your film work, your writing.

  • I'm going through a very prolific phase.

  • An effort to seek a new language for progressive politics runs through his prolific output.

  • One of the most prolific directors of this age is Sir Edward Ross.

  • I am the editor of Canadian Lawyer magazine, but I am actually a prolific freelancer.

    Academic text (2000)
  • Ralph S. Kuykendall has been one of the most prolific writers of Hawaiian history.

    Academic text (1992)
  • The prolific author published five novels and numerous articles last year.

Synonyms

productive
vsprolific
46 2.7

Giving large amounts of crops or fruit

is used especially for many creative or intellectual works
fruitful
vsprolific
43 3.9

Producing good, useful results

stresses large amounts of work or output rather than result quality
fertile
vsprolific
17 4.3

A mind that has many new ideas

is more about overall high output than imaginative generation
fecund
vsprolific
1 9.1

Able to produce many new ideas and works, like a writer

is more about high quantity across works rather than idea originality

Antonyms

90 3.4

Not working well enough to give the wanted result

21 3.8

Not giving useful or wanted results

How Productive

prodigious
19 7.5
prolific
41 7.2
fruitful
43 3.9
productive
293 3.5
unproductive
21 3.8

Surface Forms

prolific positive
prolificer comparative
prolificest superlative

Etymology

Prolific comes from the Latin root proles meaning 'offspring' and the part -fic meaning 'to make'. Think of a writer making many 'offspring' in the form of books, so a prolific author is someone who produces a large number of works.