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fecund

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of fecund

producing abundantly
  • the Franklin stove, bifocals, and the lightning rod are just a few of the inventions that we owe to the fecund creativity of Benjamin Franklin
Synonyms of fecund

cornucopian, fat, fertile, fructuous, fruitful, lush, luxuriant, productive, prolific, rich
Words Related to fecund

bearing, generative, producing, yielding

abounding, abundant, bountiful

copious, generous, liberal, plenteous, plentiful, plenitudinous

blooming, bursting, flourishing, swarming, teeming, thriving

creative, inventive, original
Near Antonyms of fecund

meager (or meagre), scant, scanty, skimp, skimpy, spare, sparse
Antonyms of fecund

barren, dead, infertile, sterile, unfertile, unfruitful, unproductive

Synonym Discussion of fecund

fertile, fecund, fruitful, prolific mean producing or capable of producing offspring or fruit. fertile implies the power to reproduce in kind or to assist in reproduction and growth
    • fertile soil
; applied figuratively, it suggests readiness of invention and development.
    • a fertile imagination
fecund emphasizes abundance or rapidity in bearing fruit or offspring.
    • a fecund herd
fruitful adds to fertile and fecund the implication of desirable or useful results.
    • fruitful research
prolific stresses rapidity of spreading or multiplying by or as if by natural reproduction.
    • a prolific writer

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