FRUITFUL

fruitful

(adjective) productive or conducive to producing in abundance; “be fruitful and multiply”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

fruitful (comparative more fruitful, superlative most fruitful)

Favourable to the growth of fruit or useful vegetation; not barren.

Synonym: fertile

Antonyms: barren, infertile, unfruitful

Being productive in any sense; yielding benefits.

Synonym: Thesaurus:productive

Antonym: unfruitful

Source: Wiktionary


Fruit"ful, a.

Definition: Full of fruit; producing fruit abundantly; bearing results; prolific; fertile; liberal; bountiful; as, a fruitful tree, or season, or soil; a fruitful wife.

– Fruit"ful*ly, adv.

– Fruit"ful*ness, n. Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth. Gen. i. 28. [Nature] By disburdening grows More fruitful. Milton. The great fruitfulness of the poet's fancy. Addison.

Syn.

– Fertile; prolific; productive; fecund; plentiful; rich; abundant; plenteous. See Fertile.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by Alcaldía Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de Bolívar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.

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