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fecund

adjectiveHigh-frequency wordMore F words

highly productive or fertile, whether of land or imagination

Word origin: From Latin fecundus, fruitful.

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Fecund in a sentence

Here are example sentences showing fecund in a sentence.

The decade was a fecund period for jazz, producing dozens of enduring classics.

The decade proved remarkably fecund, producing more enduring works than the half-century before it.

Synonyms
fertileprolificfruitful
Antonyms
barrensterileinfertile
Usage & nuance

Using “fecund” well

Fecund means richly productive, applied both to fertile land and to a fertile imagination. It is more literary than the everyday productive.

Common questions

Questions about “fecund

Fecund (adjective) means highly productive or fertile, whether of land or imagination
Here is fecund used in an example sentence: "The decade was a fecund period for jazz, producing dozens of enduring classics." Another example: "The decade proved remarkably fecund, producing more enduring works than the half-century before it."
Common synonyms for fecund include fertile, prolific, fruitful.
Antonyms of fecund include barren, sterile, infertile.
Clusters with fertile, prolific, and fruitful in Sentence Equivalence. Its antonyms barren, sterile, and infertile mark the contrast.
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