fecund
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9.1
- adjective
- /ˈfɛkənd/
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fecundo
- The decade of the 1980s and the opening years of the 1990s have proven remarkably fecund in giving birth to new ideas and theories about economic growth, trade, industrial organization, and the role of technology.
Examples
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A sweet musk smell wafted across the laminated p106 desktop, a smell that Seth thought fit her perfectly: innocent, yet fecund, ripe with possibilities.
Fiction book (1995) -
It makes room for collective integrity, acknowledges the past, cradles the present, preserves the hopeful, fecund unknown, and celebrates robust expression.
Academic text (1994) -
He's taken our minds at the most fecund point and restrained them before they've wandered through the garden of ideas.
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In time, I became a gardener, and as a poet I've returned again and again to the traditional subject that I so scorned, finding it fecund with meaning and rich with emotional significance.
Academic text (1996) -
My aim in this essay has been to sound out, to appreciate, and to record the narratives of American feminist theory in some key areas where, in my judgment, the theorizing has been especially fecund for the production of new knowledge and the seeking of a place for feminism in American society and culture.
Academic text (2001) -
These contingent realities display both a remarkable unity and a fecund diversity; therefore, the source of such unity and diversity must be both essentially one and yet unfathomably rich.
Academic text (2006) -
A theologically fecund discussion could be had by examining further similarities and dissimilarities between Rahner's theology of freedom and a Reformed theology of God's sovereignty.
Academic text (2009) -
The artist was known for her fecund imagination, creating dozens of unique paintings each year.
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After years of research, the scientist's fecund mind produced groundbreaking theories on climate change.
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The fertile discussion during the conference led to many fecund ideas about sustainable development.
Synonyms
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7.2
Making many creative works such as books, paintings, or inventions
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3.8
Able to think of new and useful ideas
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4.3
A mind that has many new ideas
Antonyms
How Productive
Surface Forms
Etymology
Fecund comes from the Latin fecundus, meaning 'fruitful', so think of a mind like a tree full of fruit, always producing new ideas. That's why fecund is used for a very productive or inventive person, mind, or environment.