Definition for FRUIT'FUL

FRUIT'FUL, a.

  1. Very productive; producing fruit in abundance; as, fruitful soil; a fruitful tree; a fruitful season.
  2. Prolific; bearing children; not barren. Be fruitful, and multiply. Gen. i.
  3. Plenteous; abounding in any thing. Pope.
  4. Productive of any thing; fertile; as, fruitful in expedients.
  5. Producing in abundance; generating; as, fruitful in crimes.

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