Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Fruitful; productive.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Fruitful; fertile; productive.
- Causing fertility.
Wiktionary
- adj. rare fruitful
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. obsolete Fruitful; productive; profitable.
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Old French, from Latin frūctuōsus, from frūctus, fruit; see fruit. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The awful surrender of the fructuous mind that lives on paper, lives for paper, paper and ink and nothing else!”
“Toward the est partye of Prestre Johnes lond, is an yle gode an gret, that men clepen Taprobane, that is fulle noble and fulle fructuous: and the kyng thereof is fulle ryche, and is undre the obeyssance of Prestre”
“Wel may that lond be called delytable and a fructuous lond, that was bebledd2 and moysted with the precyouse blode of oure Lord Jesu Crist; the whiche is the same lond, that oure lord behighten us in heritage.”
“And there is a full fair vale and a fructuous; and there is a fair city and a good that men clepe”
“Well may that land be called delectable and a fructuous land, that was be-bled and moisted with the precious blood of our”
“And though that men bring of the plants, for to plant in other countries, they grow well and fair; but they bring forth no fructuous thing, and the leaves of balm fall not.”
“And thoughe that men bryngen of the plauntes, for to planten in other contrees, thei growen wel and fayre, but thei bryngen forthe no fructuous thing: and the leves of bawme ne fallen noughte.”
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
“And it is drye and nothing fructuous; because that it hathe no moysture: and therefore is there so meche desart.”
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
“Wel may that lond be called delytable and a fructuous lond, that was bebledd448 and moysted with the precyouse blode of oure Lord Jesu Crist; the whiche is the same lond, that oure lord behighten us in heritage.”
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
“KOPPEL: Iraq is a volatile country, a mix of fructuous religious and ethnic groups, many with grievances.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fructuous’.
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phrontistery - f
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fabaceous, fabiform, fabulist, faburden, face-cord, facetiae, facia, facinorous, factious, factitious, factitive, factive and 418 more...
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Logolepsy
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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Let's talk about sex
A collection of words about doing the nasty.
prurient, odalisque, soubrette, gravid, lochia, xenogamy, syngamy, zygote, pintle, hexaploid, seminal, hetaera and 232 more...
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Papageno's Words, Pt. I
hobbledehoy, absquatulate, chthonic, prolix, ululate, internecine, verisimilitude, animadversion, concupiscence, vertiginous, cucullate, lucubrate and 1554 more...
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Botanical Terms
Terms used in botany
contabescence, effloresce, foliate, acervate, nuciform, feracious, fructuous, bifarious, serotinous, sative, demiss, tardive and 168 more...
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Fruitful
Adjectives meaning fruitful
fructuous, fructuose, fructual, fructive, fructiparous, fructescent, fructed, uberous, multiferous
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M-W.com WotD 2003 Picks
punctilio, sitzmark, futurity, laodicean, anabasis, hector, plumply, argy-bargy, portmanteau, apodictic, hoary, indite and 38 more...
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Etymology III
List for a workshop on vocabulary
fizzle, crapulence, dragoman, traduce, usurp, usury, fructuous, usufruct, disparate, mephitic, fetor, fetus and 64 more...
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linguista88's Words
panjandrum, turpitude, ignoble, roue, plangent, cozen, fungible, salient, evince, antiquarian, commination, maudlin and 172 more...
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Words!
Words I come across and decide to put away for a rainy day.
craven, pithy, waif, lexicon, stelliform, clandestine, crave, aborning, desideratum, verbose, providential, fructuous and 76 more...
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