Prolific vs Writer - What's the difference?
prolific | writer |
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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A person who writes, or produces literary work.
(historical) A clerk of a certain rank in the service of the (East India Company), who, after serving a certain number of years, became a factor.
Anything that writes or produces output.
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As an adjective prolific
is fertile, producing offspring or fruit in abundance — applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing young, etc.As a noun writer is
a person who writes, or produces literary work.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
*writer
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(wikipedia writer)Noun
(en noun)- Has your girlfriend written you a letter yet? She’s quite a writer !
- If the writer is set to autoflush mode, then all characters in the buffer are sent to their destination whenever
printlnis called.
