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fruitful

adj
/ˈfɹuːtfl̩/

Etymology

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

  1. inherited from fruitefull

Definitions

  1. Favourable to the growth of fruit or useful vegetation

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

    • And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

  2. Being productive in any sense

    Being productive in any sense; yielding benefits.

    • The extra work in the office turned out to be fruitful after all—I got promoted

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Derived

fruitfully, fruitfulness, interfruitful, overfruitful

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at fruitful. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at fruitful. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at fruitful

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA