fertile

[Fer·tile]

The word fertile means "able to reproduce," but like so many words, that's just the beginning. The fact that she gave birth to eight kids was proof that she was fertile; her fertile imagination explained their unusual names.

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Producing fruit or vegetation in abundance; fruitful; able to produce abundantly; prolific; fecund; productive; rich; inventive; as, fertile land or fields; a fertile mind or imagination.

Adjective
capable of reproducing

Adjective S.
marked by great fruitfulness; "fertile farmland"; "a fat land"; "a productive vineyard"; "rich soil"

Adjective S.
bearing in abundance especially offspring; "flying foxes are extremely prolific"; "a prolific pear tree"

Adjective S.
intellectually productive; "a prolific writer"; "a fecund imagination"


a.
Producing fruit or vegetation in abundance; fruitful; able to produce abundantly; prolific; fecund; productive; rich; inventive; as, fertile land or fields; a fertile mind or imagination.

a.
Capable of producing fruit; fruit-bearing; as, fertile flowers.

a.
Containing pollen; -- said of anthers.

a.
produced in abundance; plenteous; ample.


Fertile

Fer"tile (? ∨ ?; 277), a. [L. fertilis, fr. ferr to bear, produce: cf. F. fertile. See Bear to support.] 1. Producing fruit or vegetation in abundance; fruitful; able to produce abundantly; prolific; fecund; productive; rich; inventive; as, fertile land or fields; a fertile mind or imagination.
Though he in a fertile climate dwell.
2. (Bot.) (a) Capable of producing fruit; fruit-bearing; as, fertile flowers. (b) Containing pollen; -- said of anthers. 3. produced in abundance; plenteous; ample.
Henceforth, my early care . . . Shall tend thee, and the fertile burden ease Of thy full branches.
Syn. -- Fertile, Fruitful. Fertile implies the inherent power of production; fruitful, the act. The prairies of the West are fertile by nature, and are turned by cultivation into fruitful fields. The same distinction prevails when these words are used figuratively. A man of fertile genius has by nature great readiness of invention; one whose mind is fruitful has resources of thought and a readiness of application which enable him to think and act effectively.

Fertilely

Fer"tile*ly (? ∨ ?; 277), adv. In a fertile or fruitful manner.

Producing fruit or vegetation in abundance; fruitful; able to produce abundantly; prolific; fecund; productive; rich; inventive; as, fertile land or fields; a fertile mind or imagination.

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Usage Examples

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased, more food would be required, and it could only be procured from land not so advantageously situated.

Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.

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Other Usage Examples

Although Bill Finger literally typed the scripts in the early days, he wrote the scripts from ideas that we mutually collaborated on. Many of the unique concepts and story twists also came from my own fertile imagination.

Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.

A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we think are important.

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

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