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fruitful

Main Entry:
fruitful [froot-fuhl]
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: productive
Synonyms: abounding, abundant, advantageous, beneficial, blooming, blossoming, breeding, childing, conducive, copious, effective, fecund, fertile, flourishing, flush, fructiferous, gainful, plenteous, plentiful, profitable, profuse, proliferant, prolific, propagating, reproducing, rewarding, rich, spawning, successful, useful, well-spent, worthwhile
Antonyms: barren, impotent, sterile, unfruitful, unproductive
Main Entry: fat
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: productive, rich
Synonyms: affluent, cushy, fertile, flourishing, fruitful, good, lucrative, lush, profitable, prosperous, remunerative, thriving
Antonyms: impoverished, poor, unproductive
Main Entry: fecund
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: productive
Synonyms: breeding, fertile, fructiferous, fruitful, generating, pregnant, proliferant, prolific, propagating, reproducing, rich, spawning, teeming
Antonyms: impotent, infertile, sterile, unfruitful, unproductive
Main Entry: fertile
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: ready to bear, produce
Synonyms: abundant, arable, bearing, black, bountiful, breeding, breedy, bringing forth, childing, fecund, feracious, flowering, flowing with milk and honey, fruitful, generative, gravid, hebetic, loamy, lush, luxuriant, plenteous, plentiful, pregnant, procreant, producing, productive, proliferant, prolific, puberal, pubescent, rank, rich, spawning, teeming, uberous, vegetative, virile, with child, yielding
Antonyms: barren, fruitless, impotent, infertile, sterile, unproductive, useless
Main Entry: gainful
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: very productive, profitable
Synonyms: advantageous, beneficial, fat, fruitful, generous, going, going concern, good, in the black, lucrative, lush, moneymaking, paid off, paying, remunerative, rewarding, rich, satisfying, substantial, sweet*, useful, well-paying, worthwhile
Antonyms: disadvantageous, unproductive, unprofitable, useless
Main Entry: good
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: useful, adequate
Synonyms: acceptable, advantageous, all right, ample, appropriate, approving, apt, auspicious, becoming, benefic, beneficial, benignant, brave, commendatory, commending, common, conformable, congruous, convenient, decent, desirable, favorable, favoring, fit, fitting, fruitful, healthful, healthy, helpful, hygienic, meet, needed, opportune, profitable, proper, propitious, respectable, right, salubrious, salutary, satisfying, seemly, serviceable, suitable, tolerable, toward, unobjectionable, wholesome
Notes: using good as an adverb in place of well ("she dances real good," "he did good") is nonstandard usage - so, it would be best to say "she dances very well," "he did well"
well is an adverb to describe an activity; good is an adjective to describe a condition or state
Antonyms: inadequate, rotten, unsuitable
Main Entry: inventive
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: creative
Synonyms: adroit, artistic, avant-garde, breaking new ground, causative, constructive, demiurgic, deviceful, fertile, forgetive, formative, fruitful, gifted, imaginative, ingenious, innovational, innovative, innovatory, inspired, original, originative, poetical, productive, resourceful, teeming
Antonyms: stolen, uncreative, uninventive, unoriginal
Main Entry: lucrative
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: productive, well-paid
Synonyms: advantageous, cost effective, fatness, fruitful, gainful, good, high-income, in the black, money-making, paying, profitable, remunerative, sweet, worthwhile
Antonyms: poorly paid, unprofitable
Main Entry: luxuriant
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: profuse, plush
Synonyms: abundant, ample, copious, deluxe, dense, elaborate, excessive, extravagant, exuberant, fancy, fecund, fertile, flamboyant, flourishing, fruitful, lavish, luscious, lush, opulent, overflowing, palatial, plenteous, plentiful, prodigal, productive, profusive, prolific, rampant, rank, rich, riotous, sumptuous, superabundant, teeming, thriving
Notes: luxuriant indicates profusion while luxurious means sumptuous and expensive
Antonyms: barren, plain, poor
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