Furtive vs Fertile - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between furtive and fertile

is that furtive is stealthy while fertile is capable of growing abundant crops; productive.

(en adjective)

stealthy

Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.

* 1949 , George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four , p31

But that was merely a piece of furtive knowledge which he happened to possess because his memory was not satisfactorily under control.

* (stealthy) surreptitious * See also

* furtively * furtiveness

(en adjective)

(of land etc) capable of growing abundant crops; productive

(biology) capable of reproducing; fecund, fruitful

(biology) capable of developing past the egg stage

(of an imagination etc) productive or prolific

* See also

* barren * infertile

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