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fecund

adjective

Highly fertile or productive, including in ideas.

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Fertile or productive

Closest synonyms

fertileprolificfruitfulproductivegenerative

Related words and expressions

abundantinventiverich in ideas

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Usage distinction

Fecund 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.
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The discussion proved fecund, generating several promising ways to combine questions with concise background information.
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