Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

fruitful

/ˈfɹuːtfl̩/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 3.30 in modern English

Syllables: fruit-ful
IPA: /ˈfɹuːtfl̩/

14

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Favourable to the growth of fruit or useful vegetation; not barren.

adj

Being productive in any sense; yielding benefits.

Example Sentences

"And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth."
"The extra work in the office turned out to be fruitful after all—I got promoted"
"So, given that Claude is not conscious, what are we to make of Claude’s constitution? Perhaps the most fruitful way to think about it is as an 84-page character sheet for a role-playing game."

Etymology

From Middle English fruitefull, equivalent to fruit + -ful. Compare Dutch vruchtvol, German fruchtvoll, Swedish fruktfull.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: fruitefull
Suffix: fruit

Inflected Forms

more fruitful (comparative) most fruitful (superlative) fruitfull (alternative)

Derived Forms

fruitfully fruitfulness interfruitful overfruitful

Synonyms

fructive fructuous productive prolific pregnant batful luxuriant fertile fruitful thriving yielding yieldly

Antonyms

barren infertile unfruitful

Questions

How do you pronounce fruitful?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈfɹuːtfl̩/.
What does fruitful mean?: Favourable to the growth of fruit or useful vegetation; not barren.
Where does fruitful come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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