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

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  1. a. Full of fruit; producing fruit abundantly; bearing results; prolific; fertile; liberal; bountiful; as, a fruitful tree, or season, or soil; a fruitful wife.
  2. adj. productive or conducive to producing in abundance
  3. 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.
  4. Full of fruit; producing fruit abundantly; bearing results;prolific; fertile; liberal; bountiful; as, a fruitful tree, orseason, 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.
  5. j:100 a. productive or conducive to producing in abundance