Definitions

fecund

[fee-kuhnd, -kuhnd, fek-uhnd, -uhnd] / ˈfi kʌnd, -kənd, ˈfɛk ʌnd, -ənd /

ADJECTIVE

productive

Synonyms

WEAK

breeding fertile fructiferous fruitful generating pregnant proliferant prolific propagating reproducing rich spawning teeming

Antonyms

WEAK

impotent infertile sterile unfruitful unproductive

Example Sentences

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Fecund nature begets and squanders thousands of these rich seeds in the wilderness of life.

From The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains by Wister, Owen

Fecund America—to-day, Thou art all over set in births and joys!

From The Patriotic Poems of Walt Whitman by Whitman, Walt

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