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Fecund

Fruitful in children; prolific.

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Similar meaning 4

Fertile 84% connected

Producing fruit or vegetation in abundance; fruitful; able to produce abundantly; prolific; fecund; productive; rich; inventive; as, fertile land or…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

Open English WordNet links these adjective senses as similar in meaning; they are not necessarily interchangeable.

Fertile 84% connected

Producing fruit or vegetation in abundance; fruitful; able to produce abundantly; prolific; fecund; productive; rich; inventive; as, fertile land or…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Productive 84% connected

Having the quality or power of producing; yielding or furnishing results; as, productive soil; productive enterprises; productive labor, that which i…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Productive 84% connected

Having the quality or power of producing; yielding or furnishing results; as, productive soil; productive enterprises; productive labor, that which i…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Fecundity 74% connected

The quality or power of producing fruit; fruitfulness; especially (Biol.), the quality in female organisms of reproducing rapidly and in great number…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Fecundity 74% connected

The quality or power of producing fruit; fruitfulness; especially (Biol.), the quality in female organisms of reproducing rapidly and in great number…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Fertility 74% connected

The state or quality of being fertile or fruitful; fruitfulness; productiveness; fecundity; richness; abundance of resources; fertile invention; quic…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Fertility 74% connected

The state or quality of being fertile or fruitful; fruitfulness; productiveness; fecundity; richness; abundance of resources; fertile invention; quic…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Fertile 92% connected

Producing fruit or vegetation in abundance; fruitful; able to produce abundantly; prolific; fecund; productive; rich; inventive; as, fertile land or…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Prolific 92% connected

Having the quality of generating; producing young or fruit; generative; fruitful; productive; -- applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

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