| Main Entry: | fertile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ready to bear, produce |
Synonyms: |
abundant, arable, bearing, black, bountiful, breeding, breedy, bringing forth, childing, fecund, feracious, flowering, flowing with milk and honey, fruitful, generative, gravid, hebetic, loamy, lush, luxuriant, plenteous, plentiful, pregnant, procreant, producing, productive, proliferant, prolific, puberal, pubescent, rank, rich, spawning, teeming, uberous, vegetative, virile, with child, yielding |
Antonyms: |
barren, fruitless, impotent, infertile, sterile, unproductive, useless |
| Main Entry: | original |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fresh, new |
Synonyms: |
avant garde, breaking new ground, causal, causative, conceiving, creative, demiurgic, devising, envisioning, fertile, formative, generative, imaginative, ingenious, innovational, innovative, innovatory, inspiring, inventive, novel, originative, productive, quick, ready, resourceful, seminal, sensitive, unconventional, unprecedented, untried, unusual |
Antonyms: |
borrowed, hackneyed, old, used, worn |
| Main Entry: | productive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fruitful, creative |
Synonyms: |
advantageous, beneficial, constructive, dynamic, effective, energetic, fecund, fertile, gainful, generative, gratifying, inventive, plentiful, producing, profitable, prolific, rewarding, rich, teeming, useful, valuable, vigorous, worthwhile |
Antonyms: |
fruitless, impotent, unfruitful, unproductive |
| Main Entry: | prolific |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fruitful, productive |
Synonyms: |
abounding, abundant, bountiful, breeding, copious, creative, fecund, fertile, generating, generative, luxuriant, profuse, proliferant, rank, reproducing, reproductive, rich, spawning, swarming, teeming, yielding |
Antonyms: |
barren, fruitless, impotent, unfruitful, unproductive |
| Main Entry: | sexual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concerning reproduction, intercourse |
Synonyms: |
animal, animalistic, bestial, carnal, erotic, fleshly, generative, genital, genitive, intimate, loving, passionate, procreative, reproductive, sensual, sharing, venereal, voluptuous, wanton |
Antonyms: |
asexual, nonsexual |
| Main Entry: | virile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | potent, powerful |
Synonyms: |
driving, energetic, forceful, generative, lusty, macho*, procreative, red-blooded, reproductive, robust, sound, strong, vibrant, vigorous, vital |
Antonyms: |
effeminate, impotent, unmanly |
| Main Entry: | vital |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | alive |
Synonyms: |
animate, animated, breathing, generative, invigorative, life-giving, live, living, quickening |
| Notes: | the words crucial, essential, and vital cannot be qualified (cannot be more or less...) |
Antonyms: |
dead |
| Main Entry: | masculine |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | manlike |
Synonyms: |
adult, ape, beefcake, bold, brave, caveman, courageous, gallant, generative, hairy, hardy, honorable, hunk, jock, macho, male, manful, manly, mannish, muscular, potent, powerful, red-blooded, resolute, robust, stallion, stout-hearted, strapping, strong, stud, tuna, two-fisted, vigorous, virile, well-built |
Antonyms: |
feminine |
| Main Entry: | proliferous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fertile |
Synonyms: |
abundant, arable, bearing, black, bountiful, breeding, breedy, bringing forth, childing, fecund, feracious, flowering, flowing with milk and honey, fruitful, generative, gravid, hebetic, loamy, lush, luxuriant, plenteous, plentiful, pregnant, procreant, producing, productive, proliferant, prolific, puberal, pubescent, rank*, rich, spawning, teeming, uberous, vegetative, virile, with child, yielding |