fecund
/'fi:kənd/
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Intellectually productive or creative: Describing a mind, imagination, or person that produces many new ideas, works, or inventions.
- Capable of producing abundant offspring or vegetation: Describing an animal, plant, or land that is highly fertile and fruitful.
Usage and Examples
Intellectually productive:
- The artist's fecund imagination led to a stunning new series of paintings.
- We need a fecund mind like hers to solve this complex problem.
Biologically or agriculturally fertile:
- The fecund soil of the valley yields three harvests a year.
- Rabbits are known for being remarkably fecund animals.
Advanced Usage
- "fecund with": This phrase is used to indicate being full of or producing a great amount of something, especially ideas or possibilities.
- The period was fecund with innovation and discovery.
- Her latest novel is fecund with intricate plot twists.
Variants and Related Words
- Fecundity (noun): The quality or state of being fecund, meaning either intellectual creativity or biological fertility.
- The fecundity of the writer's output was astonishing.
- Scientists studied the fecundity of the fish population.
Synonyms
- Prolific: Producing much fruit or foliage or many offspring; intellectually productive.
- Fertile: Capable of producing abundant vegetation or crops; (of a person's mind) inventive and productive.
- Productive: Producing or able to produce large amounts of goods, crops, or ideas.
- Fruitful: Producing good or helpful results; producing much fruit.
Antonyms
- Barren: Incapable of producing offspring, fruit, or vegetation; unproductive.
- Sterile: Not able to produce children, young, crops, etc.; lacking in imagination, ideas, or enthusiasm.
- Infertile: Not fertile; unproductive.
Adjective
- intellectually productive
- a prolific writer
- a fecund imagination
- capable of producing offspring or vegetation