SYNONYMS AND RELATED EXPRESSIONS
fecund
adjective
Highly fertile or productive, including in ideas.
Local English device voice, when available. This is not a recorded dictionary pronunciation.
Fertile or productive
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Usage distinction
Return to topFecund applies to biological fertility or creative productivity; prolific emphasizes the quantity produced.
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The poet's fecund imagination transformed an ordinary walk into an epic.
The discussion proved fecund, generating several promising ways to combine questions with concise background information.
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