fertile

Speech parts

1. fertile - Adjective

2. fertile - Adjective Satellite

3. Fertile - Proper noun

Meaning

Producing fruit or vegetation in abundance; fruitful; able to produce abundantly; prolific; fecund; productive; rich; inventive; as, fertile land or fields; a fertile mind or imagination.

Capable of producing fruit; fruit-bearing; as, fertile flowers.

Containing pollen; -- said of anthers.

produced in abundance; plenteous; ample.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

rich productive prolific fruitful fecund creative fat pregnant abundant reproductive imaginative inventive generative bountiful resourceful
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Antonyms

sterile jaffa limited sisyphean poor male
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Related terms

fertility fertilization fertilize fertilise fertilizer fertilisation

Phrases with the word

cross-fertile Fertile Valley fertile ground fertile land fertile breeding fertile breeding ground

Anagrams

firelet

Examples

Even though one is well advanced in virtue, should he stop mortifying himself, he soon would lose his modesty and virtue - just as fertile soul quickly becomes dry and arid and produces nothing but thorns and thistles if it is not cultivated. John Climacus

All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction. Alan Lightman

The turtle lives twixt plated decks Which practically conceal its sex I think it clever of the turtle In such a fix to be so fertile. Ogden Nash

Bad luck is fertile. Russian Proverb

Fertile is water that runs under lava. Icelandic Proverb

The fertile field becomes sterile without rest. Spanish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

fertigate fertigation fertil fertile area fertile as a turtle fertile breeding