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Having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing.

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Fruitful 84% connected

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

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Fruitful 84% connected

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

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Generate 74% connected

To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender; as, every animal generates its own species.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Generate 74% connected

To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender; as, every animal generates its own species.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Mother 74% connected

A female parent; especially, one of the human race; a woman who has borne a child.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Mother 74% connected

A female parent; especially, one of the human race; a woman who has borne a child.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Procreative 92% connected

Having the power to beget; generative.

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.

Productive 92% connected

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.

Reproductive 92% connected

Tending, or pertaining, to reproduction; employed in reproduction.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Consumptive 94% connected

Of or pertaining to consumption; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet records these words as lexical opposites.

Consumptive 94% connected

Of or pertaining to consumption; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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