Synonyms for fruitful
- adjective
Most common
successful productive prolific plentiful useful frugiferous fruitsome
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Productive — being productive in any sense; yielding benefits
productive, fertile, prolific, successful, plentiful, fecund, bountiful, rich, abundant, plenteous, pregnant, thriving, luxuriant, teeming, fat, ample, copious, exuberant, childing dated
2. Fructuous — favourable to the growth of fruit or useful vegetation; not barren
Other
useful, frugiferous, fruitsome, fruitious dated
Definitions
- adj. 1
Favourable to the growth of fruit or useful vegetation; not barren.
- adj. 2
Being productive in any sense; yielding benefits.
The extra work in the office turned out to be fruitful after all—I got promoted
Related words
- Word family
- fruitfully fruitfulness
- Is a kind of
- fertile
Example sentences
- successful Do you think the campaign was successful in Italy?
- productive All-nighters are never as productive as they seem.
- prolific Mammeri was one of Algeria's most prolific writers.
- plentiful For some, excuses are plentiful to remain idle.
- useful Rocks and minerals are useful for us in many ways.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| fruitful | falling | |
| successful | steady | |
| productive | falling | |
| prolific | steady | |
| plentiful | falling | |
| useful | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- fat1
- 4 letters
- rich1
- 5 letters
- ample2
- 6 letters
- useful2, fecund
- 7 letters
- fertile2, copious3, teeming2
- 8 letters
- pregnant2, abundant3, prolific3, thriving2, childing, fructive
- 9 letters
- plentiful3, exuberant4, bountiful3, luxuriant4, plenteous, fructuous, fruitsome, fruitious
- 10 letters
- successful3, productive3
- 11 letters
- frugiferous
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (ample2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- fructueux
- Español
- fructuoso
- Deutsch
- erfolgreich
- Català
- fructuós