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adjective

producing good results; beneficial; profitable: fruitful investigations.

abounding in fruit, as trees or other plants; bearing fruit abundantly.

producing an abundant growth, as of fruit: fruitful soil; fruitful rain.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English; see fruit, -ful

Related forms

fruit·ful·ly, adverb

fruit·ful·ness, noun

o·ver·fruit·ful, adjective

o·ver·fruit·ful·ly, adverb

o·ver·fruit·ful·ness, noun

Synonyms
1, 3. See productive.

Antonyms
1. barren.

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November is not as fruitful in incidents as many of the preceding months of the now rapidly fleeting year.

As a scientific historian and physicist, he understands how important and fruitful it is to work in a trans-disciplinary manner.

Last summer, bosses spent many fruitful hours with their lawyers discussing how to limit their risks.

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November is not as fruitful in incidents as many of the preceding months of the now rapidly fleeting year.

As a scientific historian and physicist, he understands how important and fruitful it is to work in a trans-disciplinary manner.

Last summer, bosses spent many fruitful hours with their lawyers discussing how to limit their risks.

It's much more fruitful to spend time on one or two locations than to race around.

He probably should have foreseen that the psychic path was not particularly fruitful.

They believe the culture thrived for hundreds of years, breaking up into settlements and living off the fruitful land.

With some ingenuity and imagination, there could be fruitful future applications, but not for furniture.

AN arid, desert patch cannot be transformed into a fertile, fruitful garden by a spasmodic spraying of its surface.

It was your standard fare about the number and quality of applicants, followed by well wishes for a fruitful career.

It oversaw a fruitful truce between business and labour that produced a golden period for capitalism with benefits all round.

Once it was rich agricultural land, a place of barns and bountiful harvests and fruitful orchards.

Comparing gene expression in two populations of foxes raised in identical conditions is potentially much more fruitful.

As fruitful as your life has been, your legacy will last for many generations to come.

Power counts for a lot, but a little finesse also lends itself well to a more fruitful play session.

Sawa continues his fruitful investigations into small-scale, understated domestic surrealism.

Fruitful scholarly careers depend upon building relationships as well as one's library.

Juvenile rants in the blogosphere replace fruitful human contact.

Not all adult encounters have such a fruitful outcome.

Researchers involved in the field suggest a number of research avenues that could be more fruitful for counter-terrorism.

Other accidents by land and water have boon more fruitful of death, but none of greater horrors.

In developing countries, fruitful interaction of this kind is unheard of.

What is fruitful to me is studying their differences to learn the best of both worlds.

May the family be comforted in the knowledge that she lived a long, fruitful and happy life.

Companies, after all, are meant to invest other people's money in fruitful ventures that help expand the economy.

She lived a long, exciting and fruitful life and touched the lives of many.

Then this cooperative endeavour could prove fruitful.

His family mourns his death and celebrates his long and fruitful life.

The wedding-ring has been a fruitful source of woes.

But yes, there's certainly plenty of fruitful interdisciplinary conversation here.

Kubodera said, and the event could help open up more fruitful research into the poorly understood animal.

The discipline has been particularly fruitful in the case of the iceman.

Whether this ultimately is right or wrong, it seems to me to be an intriguing and potentially fruitful line of inquiry.

We will have to wait and see which of the tactics is more fruitful for the cause.

These conditions provided a fruitful environment for plants and animals to differentiate and nourish.

Despite a long history of fruitful investigation into environmental.

There is no guarantee that fiscal consolidation would prove fruitful.

The subsequent ad contact proved fruitful beyond his wildest dreams.

Brooks of not knowing his well-worn, ever fruitful patch of satirical terrain.

The fashion world is a fecund, fruitful and fertile source of metaphoric phrases.

But the two-month-long saga that followed has been fruitful in a way ã no pun intended.

To the people of one country he dispenses the blessings of peace, of healthful gales, and of fruitful seasons.

Dudiak, the exercise proved more fruitful than a group discussion or a handwritten entry in a personal journal.

It's a conscientious work, but pruned by a third it would have been three times as fruitful.

Each side can now say it has fruitful research to pursue.

The couple plant a tree and say a prayer, then set about being fruitful and multiplying.

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fruitful (ˈfruːtfʊl)

—*adj*
1.	bearing fruit in abundance
2.	productive or prolific, esp in bearing offspring
3.	causing or assisting prolific growth
4.	producing results or profits: a fruitful discussion

'fruitfully

—*adv*

'fruitfulness

—n

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Word Origin & History

fruitful

c.1300, of trees, from fruit + -ful. Related: Fruitfully; fruitfulness. Of animals or persons from early 16c.; of immaterial things from 1530s.

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