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Fortunate vs Fruitful - What's the difference?

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Fortunate is a related term of fruitful.


As adjectives the difference between fortunate and fruitful

is that fortunate is coming by good luck or favorable chance while fruitful is favourable to the growth of fruit or useful vegetation; fertile; not barren.

fortunate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Coming by good luck or favorable chance.
  • Bringing some good thing not foreseen as certain.
  • Presaging happiness.
  • Auspicious.
    • a fortunate event
    a fortunate concurrence of circumstances
    a fortunate investment
  • Receiving some unforeseen or unexpected good, or some good which was not dependent on one's own skill or efforts.
  • Lucky, favored by fortune.

    • Synonyms

    * lucky

    Antonyms

    * unlucky * unfortunate

    Derived terms

    * unfortunately * fortunately

    See also

    * unluckily * luckily (Webster 1913) ----

    fruitful

    English

    Alternative forms

    * fruitfull (archaic)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Favourable to the growth of fruit or useful vegetation; fertile; not barren.
  • Being productive in any sense; yielding benefits.
    • 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 also

    Antonyms

    * unfruitful * barren * infertile

    Related terms

    * fruitfully * fruitfulness

    References

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