Fruitful vs Efficient - What's the difference?
fruitful | efficient |
Favourable to the growth of fruit or useful vegetation; fertile; not barren.
Being productive in any sense; yielding benefits.
Making good, thorough, or careful use of resources; not consuming extra. Especially, making good use of time or energy.
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Using a particular proportion of available energy.
Causing effects; producing results.
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As adjectives the difference between fruitful and efficient
is that fruitful is favourable to the growth of fruit or useful vegetation; fertile; not barren while efficient is efficient.fruitful
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Alternative forms
* fruitfull (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)- The extra work in the office turned out to be fruitful after all - I got promoted
Quotations
* Genesis, I, 22 *: And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful , and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* unfruitful * barren * infertileReferences
* *efficient
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Adjective
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- The efficient cause is the working cause.