Synonyms for prolific
- adjective
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Adjective
1. Productive — fertile; producing offspring or fruit in abundance, applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing…
productive, fruitful, fertile, fecund, plentiful, abundant, rich, teeming, thick, prodigal, pregnant formal, exuberant, bountiful, luxuriant, plenteous, lavish, abounding
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Definitions
- adj. 1
Fertile; producing offspring or fruit in abundance, applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing young, etc.
Related words
- Word family
- prolificacy prolificness
Example sentences
- productive All-nighters are never as productive as they seem.
- fertile Farmers planted crops on the fertile adret slopes.
- fruitful Their year-long stay in Germany was very fruitful.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| prolific | steady | |
| productive | falling | |
| fertile | steady | |
| fruitful | falling | |
| fecund | rising | |
| prodigious | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- rich1
- 5 letters
- thick1
- 6 letters
- lavish2, fecund
- 7 letters
- fertile2, teeming2
- 8 letters
- pregnant2, abundant3, fruitful2, prodigal3
- 9 letters
- plentiful3, exuberant4, bountiful3, abounding3, luxuriant4, plenteous
- 10 letters
- productive3, prodigious3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (lavish2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- prolifique
- Italiano
- prolifico
- Español
- prolífico
- Català
- prolífic