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| Main Entry: | fertile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ready to bear, produce |
| Synonyms: | abundant, arable, bearing, black, bountiful, breeding, fecund, flowering, fruitful, lush, luxuriant, plentiful, pregnant, producing, productive, prolific, rank, rich, teeming, virile, yielding, breedy, bringing forth, childing, feracious, flowing with milk and honey, generative, gravid, hebetic, loamy, plenteous, procreant, proliferant, puberal, pubescent, spawning, uberous, vegetative, with child |
| Antonyms: | barren, fruitless, impotent, infertile, sterile, unproductive, useless |
| Main Entry: | creative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | artistic, imaginative |
| Synonyms: | clever, cool*, fertile, formative, gifted, hip*, ingenious, innovative, inspired, inventive, original, productive, prolific, stimulating, visionary, way out, demiurgic, deviceful, innovational, innovatory, leading-edge, originative |
| Antonyms: | unimaginative, uninspired, unproductive, uncreative, ungifted, untalented |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fecund |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | productive |
| Synonyms: | breeding, fertile, fruitful, pregnant, prolific, rich, teeming, fructiferous, generating, proliferant, propagating, reproducing, spawning |
| Antonyms: | impotent, infertile, sterile, unfruitful, unproductive |
| Main Entry: | female |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having the qualities or characteristics of a woman |
| Synonyms: | effeminate, fecund, feminine, fertile, maternal, womanish, womanly, muliebrous |
| Antonyms: | male, masculine |
| Main Entry: | femininity/feminine |
| Part of Speech: | noun, adjective |
| Definition: | womanly |
| Synonyms: | effeminate, effete, fertile, gender, womanish, gynic, womanhood, womanliness |
| Antonyms: | masculinity |
| Main Entry: | fruitful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | productive |
| Synonyms: | abounding, abundant, advantageous, beneficial, blooming, blossoming, breeding, conducive, copious, effective, fecund, fertile, flourishing, flush, gainful, plentiful, profitable, profuse, prolific, rewarding, rich, successful, useful, worthwhile, childing, fructiferous, plenteous, proliferant, propagating, reproducing, spawning, well-spent |
| Antonyms: | barren, impotent, sterile, unfruitful, unproductive |
| Main Entry: | imaginative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | creative, inventive |
| Synonyms: | artistic, avant-garde, clever, dreamy, enterprising, extravagant, fanciful, fantastic, fertile, high-flown*, ingenious, inspired, offbeat, original, poetic, productive, quixotic, romantic, utopian, visionary, vivid, way out, whimsical, blue-sky, brain wave, breaking ground, fictive, originative, pie-in-the-sky, poetical |
| Notes: | imaginary means not based on fact while imaginative means marked by independence and creativity in thought or action |
| Antonyms: | dull, unimaginative, uncreative, uninventive, unresourceful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inventive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | creative |
| Synonyms: | adroit, artistic, avant-garde, constructive, fertile, formative, fruitful, gifted, imaginative, ingenious, innovative, inspired, original, productive, resourceful, teeming, breaking new ground, causative, demiurgic, deviceful, forgetive, innovational, innovatory, originative, poetical |
| Antonyms: | stolen, unoriginal, uncreative, uninventive |
| Main Entry: | luxuriant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | profuse, plush |
| Synonyms: | abundant, ample, copious, deluxe, dense, elaborate, excessive, extravagant, exuberant, fancy, fecund, fertile, flamboyant, flourishing, fruitful, lavish, luscious, lush, opulent, overflowing, palatial, plentiful, prodigal, productive, prolific, rampant, rank, rich, riotous, sumptuous, teeming, thriving, plenteous, profusive, superabundant |
| Antonyms: | barren, plain, poor |
| Main Entry: | plentiful/plenty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abundant, productive |
| Synonyms: | abounding, ample, bountiful, chock-full*, complete, copious, enough, excessive, extravagant, exuberant, fertile, flowing, flush*, fruitful, full, fulsome, generous, improvident, infinite, large, lavish, liberal, lush, luxuriant, overflowing, prodigal, profuse, prolific, replete, rife, sufficient, superfluous, swimming, teeming, bounteous, bumper, lousy with, plenteous, superabundant, swarming |
| Antonyms: | few, lacking, little, rare, scarce, wanting, needing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | productive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fruitful, creative |
| Synonyms: | advantageous, beneficial, constructive, dynamic, effective, energetic, fecund, fertile, gainful, gratifying, inventive, plentiful, producing, profitable, prolific, rewarding, rich, teeming, useful, valuable, vigorous, worthwhile, generative |
| Antonyms: | fruitless, impotent, unfruitful, unproductive |
| Main Entry: | prolific |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fruitful, productive |
| Synonyms: | abounding, abundant, bountiful, breeding, copious, creative, fecund, fertile, luxuriant, profuse, rank, reproductive, rich, teeming, yielding, generating, generative, proliferant, reproducing, spawning, swarming |
| Antonyms: | barren, fruitless, impotent, unfruitful, unproductive |
| Main Entry: | plentiful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abundant |
| Synonyms: | abounding, ample, appreciable, bountiful, chock-full, competent, complete, copious, enough, excessive, extravagant, exuberant, fertile, flowing, flush, fruitful, full, fulsome, generous, improvident, inexhaustible, infinite, large, lavish, liberal, lush, luxuriant, overflowing, plenty, prodigal, productive, profuse, prolific, replete, rife, sufficient, superfluous, swimming, teeming, unlimited, bounteous, bumper, lousy with, no end, plenteous, superabundant, swarming, well-provided |
| Antonyms: | meager, scarce |
| Main Entry: | producing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bearing |
| Synonyms: | fertile, productive, ready, bringing forth, generating |
| Main Entry: | pregnant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | carrying developing offspring within the body |
| Synonyms: | abundant, enceinte, expectant, expecting*, fecund, fertile, fraught, fruitful, heavy, hopeful, productive, prolific, replete, teeming, anticipating, carrying a child, gestating, gravid, in family way, parous, parturient, preggers, with child |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | exuberant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | profuse |
| Synonyms: | abundant, affluent, copious, diffuse, effusive, exaggerated, excessive, fecund, fertile, fruitful, fulsome, lavish, lush, luxuriant, opulent, overdone, overflowing, plentiful, prodigal, prolific, rampant, rich, riotous, superfluous, teeming, plenteous, superabundant |
| Antonyms: | insufficient, lacking, wanting, needing |
| Main Entry: | original |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fresh, new |
| Synonyms: | creative, fertile, formative, imaginative, ingenious, innovative, inspiring, inventive, novel, productive, quick, ready, resourceful, seminal, sensitive, unconventional, unprecedented, untried, unusual, avant garde, breaking new ground, causal, causative, conceiving, demiurgic, devising, envisioning, generative, innovational, innovatory, originative |
| Antonyms: | borrowed, hackneyed, old, used, worn |
| Main Entry: | rank |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abundant, luxurious |
| Synonyms: | coarse, dense, excessive, extreme, exuberant, fertile, flourishing, grown, lavish, lush, luxuriant, overgrown, productive, profuse, prolific, rampant, rich, tropical, vigorous, wild, fructiferous, high-growing, junglelike, overabundant, semitropical |
| Antonyms: | rare, scarce, sparse |
| Main Entry: | rich |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abundant, well-supplied |
| Synonyms: | abounding, ample, chic, classy, copious, costly, deluxe, elaborate, elegant, expensive, exquisite, extravagant, exuberant, fancy, fecund, fertile, fine, fruitful, full, gorgeous, grand, high-class, lavish, lush, luxurious, magnificent, ornate, palatial, plentiful, plush, posh, precious, priceless, productive, prolific, resplendent, ritzy*, smart, snazzy*, spiffy, splendid, stylish, sumptuous, superb, swanky*, swell*, valuable, embellished, plenteous, swank, well-endowed |
| Antonyms: | depleted, impoverished, needy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fat |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | productive, rich |
| Synonyms: | affluent, cushy, fertile, flourishing, fruitful, good, lucrative, lush, profitable, prosperous, remunerative, thriving |
| Antonyms: | impoverished, poor, unproductive |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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