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Synonyms
cornucopian, fat, fecund, fertile, fructuous, lush, luxuriant, productive, prolific, rich
Antonyms
barren, dead, infertile, sterile, unfertile, unfruitful, unproductive
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This was the beginning of a fruitful and largely drug-free period for both artists. — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, "The Survival of Iggy Pop," 26 Aug. 2019 In his long and fruitful stint at Milan, Marco van Basten was a true penalty master for the Rossoneri. — SI.com, "The 50 Best Penalty Takers in Football History," 11 July 2019 Further recordings in two Los Angeles studios with producer Matt Wallace proved to be more fruitful. — Ross Raihala, Twin Cities, "New Replacements box set offers an alternate ‘Don’t Tell a Soul’ stripped of its gloss," 25 July 2019 Cloud services, a business Amazon originally entered to support its own infrastructure, has become incredibly fruitful for the online retailer. — Mike Murphy, Quartz, "Amazon’s cloud dominance is starting to slip," 25 July 2019 Perhaps studying particular groups of students would be more fruitful than taking a broad view. — Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic, "Has College Gotten Too Easy?," 23 July 2019 Baker Mayfield appears to have coach Freddie Kitchens' blessing to embrace his risk-taking side, and the approach has already proven fruitful for the pair. — Michael Middlehurst-schwartz, USA TODAY, "Offensive fireworks: 5 NFL teams that will be explosive in 2019," 4 July 2019 But efforts to breed captive northern white rhinos have been less fruitful, says Jan Stejskal, director of the Dvur Kralove Zoo in the Czech Republic, where Sudan lived for many years and where Najin and Fatu were born. — Rebecca Boyle, Discover Magazine, "The Quixotic Quest to Birth a Baby Northern White Rhino," 25 June 2019 Chief among the state’s concerns was Renault’s alliance with Nissan, a fruitful partnership that could be jeopardized — along with many French jobs — if the merger proceeded. — New York Times, "The Week in Business: YouTube Flip-Flops on Hate Speech," 8 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'fruitful.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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