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producing
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bearing |
| Synonyms: | bringing forth, fertile, generating, productive, ready |
| Main Entry: | produce |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cause, effect |
| Synonyms: | beget, breed, bring about, draw on, engender, generate, get up, give rise to, hatch, induce, make, make for, muster, occasion, provoke, result in, secure, set off, work up |
| Antonyms: | result |
| Main Entry: | produce |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | demonstrate, show |
| Synonyms: | advance, bring forward, bring to light, display, exhibit, offer, present, put forward, set forth, unfold |
| Main Entry: | produce |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | put on a public performance |
| Synonyms: | act, come through, direct, do, exhibit, make, mount, percolate, perform, perk, play, present, pull off, show, stage |
| Antonyms: | act, play |
| Main Entry: | birth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | becoming alive |
| Synonyms: | act of God, bearing, beginning, birthing, blessed event, childbearing, childbirth, creation, delivery, labor, nascency, natality, nativity, parturition, producing, travail, visit from stork |
| Antonyms: | death |
| Main Entry: | childbirth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | giving birth |
| Synonyms: | accouchement, bearing children, blessed event, childbed, confinement, delivering, delivery, labor, lying-in, nativity, parturience, parturition, procreation, producing, propagation, reproduction, travail, visit from the stork |
| Main Entry: | continuation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | addition; maintenance |
| Synonyms: | assiduity, augmenting, continuance, continuing, continuity, duration, endurance, enduring, extension, furtherance, going on, increase, increasing, line, maintaining, perpetuating, perpetuation, persisting, postscript, preservation, preserving, producing, production, prolongation, prolonging, propagation, protracting, protraction, sequel, succession, supplement, sustaining, sustenance, tenacity |
| Antonyms: | cessation, end, finish, halt, stop, termination |
| Main Entry: | effective |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | productive, persuasive |
| Synonyms: | able, active, adequate, capable, cogent, compelling, competent, convincing, direct, effectual, efficacious, efficient, emphatic, energetic, forceful, forcible, having lead in pencil, impressive, live, moving, on the ball, operative, playing hardball, potent, powerful, powerhouse, practical, producing, resultant, serviceable, serving, sound, striking, sufficient, telling, trenchant, useful, valid, virtuous, wicked*, yielding |
| Notes: | effective means 'having a (desired) result or effect,' effectual is 'succeeding in producing a desired result or effect,' and efficacious means the same as effectual as well as 'serving as an effective solution or remedy' |
| Antonyms: | fruitless, impotent, incapable, ineffective, unproductive, useless, weak |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
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