Meaning & use

fecund

adjective·Advanced

Capable of producing abundant offspring, growth, or ideas; fertile.

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The fecund soil along the river produced two harvests every year.

Critics praised the novelist's fecund imagination, which had already yielded a dozen books.

A note on using this word

Fecund is a formal, somewhat literary word applied to soil, organisms, or minds capable of rich, abundant production.

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fertileprolificproductive

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