Tuesday word: Prolific

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Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Prolific (adjective)
pro·lif·ic [pruh-lif-ik]

ajective
1. producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful: a prolific pear tree.
2. producing in large quantities or with great frequency; highly productive: a prolific writer.
3. profusely productive or fruitful (often followed by in or of): a bequest prolific of litigations.
4. characterized by abundant production: a prolific year for tomatoes.

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WORDS RELATED TO PROLIFIC
rich, creative, abounding, abundant, bountiful, breeding, copious, fecund, fertile, luxuriant, profuse, rank, reproductive, teeming, yielding, spawning, generative

SYNONYMS FOR PROLIFIC
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1, 2. teeming, fecund, abundant. See productive.

ANTONYMS FOR PROLIFIC
1. barren.

Origin: 1640–50; < Medieval Latin prolificus fertile. See prolicide, -fic

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