SYNONYMS AND RELATED EXPRESSIONS
fruitful
adjective
Producing useful results, successful ideas, or abundant growth.
Local English device voice, when available. This is not a recorded dictionary pronunciation.
Producing useful results
Closest synonyms
Related words and expressions
These extend or explain the idea and may require a different sentence structure.
Usage distinction
Return to topProfitable may mean useful rather than money-making; prolific emphasizes abundant output.
CHECK THE MEANING IN CONTEXT
See fruitful in use
The short meeting proved fruitful and produced three workable proposals.
The brainstorming session was very fruitful.
1 more example
A fruitful editing session turned several overlapping route sketches into a clear set of corrections that the map team could use.
Compare an alternative with the original word in each passage. Shared meanings do not make every pair interchangeable.
Synonym reference scope and sources
The groups distinguish the senses selected for this study entry. Closest synonyms and broader related expressions have separate labels. The listed sources support lexical selection; not every phrase is a direct quotation from a source.
How the synonym reference was prepared / WordNet 3.0 license