fertile
/'fə:tail/
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Capable of producing abundant vegetation or crops: Describes land or soil that is rich in nutrients and supports vigorous plant growth.
- Capable of reproducing offspring: Describes an animal, person, or plant that is able to produce young or fruit.
- Intellectually productive or creative: Describes a mind, imagination, or period that produces many new ideas, works, or inventions.
Examples
- Adjective:
- The fertile soil in the valley yields excellent crops.
- After the treatment, the couple hoped to become fertile again.
- The Renaissance was a fertile period for art and science.
Advanced Usage
- "fertile ground for something": A situation or place that is very suitable for something to develop.
- The economic crisis provided fertile ground for political extremism.
- "fertile mind/imagination": A mind that produces many original and creative ideas.
- The novelist's fertile imagination created entire worlds.
Variants and Related Words
- Fertility (n): The quality or state of being fertile.
- Doctors tested her fertility.
- Fertilize (v): To make soil or an egg cell fertile.
- Farmers fertilize the fields in spring.
- Fertilizer (n): A substance added to soil to make it more fertile.
- They use organic fertilizer in their garden.
Synonyms
- Productive: Yielding good or abundant results.
- Fecund: Producing or capable of producing an abundance of offspring or new growth; fertile (often used in formal or literary contexts).
- Prolific: Producing much fruit, foliage, or many offspring; (of an artist, author, etc.) producing many works.
Antonyms
- Infertile: Not able to produce children, young, crops, or fruit.
- Barren: Too poor to produce much or any vegetation; (of a woman or female animal) unable to bear children.
- Sterile: Not able to produce children, young, or crops; free from bacteria or other living microorganisms.
Adjective
- marked by great fruitfulness
- fertile farmland
- a fat land
- a productive vineyard
- rich soil
- bearing in abundance especially offspring
- flying foxes are extremely prolific
- a prolific pear tree
- intellectually productive
- a prolific writer
- a fecund imagination
- capable of reproducing