Meaning & use

fertile

adjective·Academic

Capable of producing abundant plant growth, offspring, or new ideas.

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The river valley's fertile soil supports three harvests a year.

A good brainstorming session can be a fertile source of new ideas.

A note on using this word

Fertile applies literally to soil and living things able to reproduce, and figuratively to conditions that generate ideas, as in 'fertile imagination.'

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