Prolific vs Unstinted - What's the difference?
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Fertile, producing offspring or fruit in abundance — applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing young, etc.
Similarly producing results or works in abundance
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Not constrained, not restrained, or not confined.
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Prolific is a related term of unstinted.
As adjectives the difference between prolific and unstinted
is that prolific is prolific while unstinted is not constrained, not restrained, or not confined.prolific
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Alternative forms
* prolifick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)citation, page= , passage=The most obvious beneficiary of the visitors' superiority was Frank Lampard. By the end of the night he was perched 13th in the list of England's most prolific goalscorers, having leapfrogged Sir Geoff Hurst to score his 24th and 25th international goals. No other player has managed more than the Chelsea midfielder's 11 in World Cup qualification ties, with this a display to roll back the years.}}
Synonyms
* fertile * (fertile, producing offspring or fruit in abundance) fecund * (producing results or works in abundance) See alsoDerived terms
* prolificacy * prolifically * prolificity * prolificnessReferences
*unstinted
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Mr. Coggan poured the liquor with unstinted liberality at the suffering Cain's circular mouth.
- Wherever we went there was the sun, lavish and unstinted .
- You must have support and belief—unstinted support and belief.
- The music-publisher had been unstinted in his praise.
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- Augustus Saint-Gaudens . . .gave the crude, grabbing Republic its lessons in symbolic deportment and visual elocution, and won its unstinted gratitude.