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producing fruit abundantly; bearing results; prolific; fertile; liberal; bountiful; as, a fruitful tree, or season, or soil; a fruitful wife. -- Fruit"ful*ly, adv. -- Fruit"ful*ness, n. Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth. Gen. i. 28. [Nature] By disburdening grows More fruitful. Milton. The great fruitf…

Too fruitful.

Not producing fruit or offspring; unproductive; infertile; barren; sterile; as, an unfruitful tree or animal; unfruitful soil; an unfruitful life or effort. -- Un*fruit"ful*ly, adv. -- Un*fruit"ful*ness, n.

Not producing fruit; unfruitful.

Having lost the power of development, and become rotten, as eggs; putrid. Hence: Unfruitful or confused, as brains; muddled. Dryden.

Unfruitfully; unproductively.

Fertile; fruitful; productive. [Obs.] A battel soil for grain, for pasture good. Fairfax.

To produce, as fruit; to be fruitful, in opposition to barrenness. This age to blossom, and the next to bear. Dryden.

A fruitful field. Libanus shall be turned into charmel, and charmel shall be esteemed as a forest. Isa. xxix. 17 (Douay version).

Bearing Children; (Fig.) productive; fruitful. [R.] Shak.

a bunch. Her deeds were like great clusters of ripe grapes, Which load the bunches of the fruitful vine. Spenser.

Apt to conceive; fruitful. [Obs.] Shak.

as an effect discloses its cause; to prove; to attest. Tall thriving trees confessed the fruitful mold. Pope.

Large in quantity or amount; plentiful; abundant; fruitful. Kindly pours its copious treasures forth. Thomson. Hail, Son of God, Savior of men! thy name Shall be the copious matter of my song. Milton.

ædal hand of Nature. J. Philips. The doth the dædal earth throw forth to thee, Out of her fruitful, abundant flowers. Spenser.

Producing nothing; unfruitful; -- said of a plant or tree; as, an empty vine. Seven empty ears blasted with the east wind. Gen. xli. 27.

Hence; Richness; fertility; fruitfulness. Rich in the fatness of her plenteous soil. Rowe.

To make fertile and fruitful; to enrich; as, to fatten land; to fatten fields with blood. Dryden.

Fruitful in children; prolific. Graunt.

To make fruitful or prolific. W. Montagu.