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Having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing.
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Similar meaning 2
Full of fruit; producing fruit abundantly; bearing results; prolific; fertile; liberal; bountiful; as, a fruitful tree, or season, or soil; a fruitfu…
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50% interchangeable
Open English WordNet links these adjective senses as similar in meaning; they are not necessarily interchangeable.
Full of fruit; producing fruit abundantly; bearing results; prolific; fertile; liberal; bountiful; as, a fruitful tree, or season, or soil; a fruitfu…
oewn 2023
50% interchangeable
Open English WordNet links these adjective senses as similar in meaning; they are not necessarily interchangeable.
Derivationally related 4
To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender; as, every animal generates its own species.
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15% interchangeable
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To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender; as, every animal generates its own species.
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15% interchangeable
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A female parent; especially, one of the human race; a woman who has borne a child.
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15% interchangeable
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A female parent; especially, one of the human race; a woman who has borne a child.
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15% interchangeable
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Synonym 3
Having the power to beget; generative.
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68% interchangeable
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Having the quality or power of producing; yielding or furnishing results; as, productive soil; productive enterprises; productive labor, that which i…
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.
Tending, or pertaining, to reproduction; employed in reproduction.
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.
Antonym 2
Of or pertaining to consumption; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting.
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0% interchangeable
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Of or pertaining to consumption; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting.
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0% interchangeable
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