Fruitful vs Plentiful - What's the difference?
fruitful | plentiful |
Favourable to the growth of fruit or useful vegetation; fertile; not barren.
Being productive in any sense; yielding benefits.
Existing in large number or ample amount.
Yielding abundance; fruitful.
* Francis Bacon
(obsolete) lavish; profuse; prodigal
* Francis Bacon
As adjectives the difference between fruitful and plentiful
is that fruitful is favourable to the growth of fruit or useful vegetation; fertile; not barren while plentiful is existing in large number or ample amount.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
* *plentiful
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Alternative forms
* plentifull (archaic)Adjective
(en-adj)- a plentiful harvest
- a plentiful supply of water
- She accumulated a plentiful collection of books.
- Some years, the tree is a plentiful source of apples.
- If it be a long winter, it is commonly a more plentiful year.
- He that is plentiful in expenses will hardly be preserved from decay.
