Word Meanings - GENERATIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing. "That generative particle." Bentley.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GENERATIVE)

• Pregnant
• Procreant
• generative
• prolific
• teeming
• significant
• fraught
• fruitful
• replete
• with child
• enceinte

Related words: (words related to GENERATIVE)

• CHILDSHIP
  The state or relation of being a child.
• CHILDISHNESS
  The state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect.
• CHILDED
  Furnished with a child.
• CHILDBIRTH
  The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor. Jer. Taylor.
• PREGNANT
  1. Being with young, as a female; having conceived; great with young; breeding; teeming; gravid; preparing to bring forth. 2. Heavy with important contents, significance, or issue; full of consequence or results; weighty; as, pregnant replies.
• CHILDISH
  1. Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child. "Childish innocence." Macaulay. 2. Peurile; trifling; weak. Methinks that simplicity in her countenance is rather childish than innocent. Addison. Note: Childish, as applied tc persons who
• FRAUGHTAGE
  Freight; loading; cargo. Shak.
• CHILD STUDY
  A scientific study of children, undertaken for the purpose of discovering the laws of development of the body and the mind from birth to manhood.
• PROLIFICATION
  Reproduction by the growth of a plant, or part of a plant, directly from an older one, or by gemmæ. (more info) 1. The generation of young.
• TEEMER
  One who teems, or brings forth.
• CHILDCROWING
  The crowing noise made by children affected with spasm of the laryngeal muscles; false croup.
• PREGNANTLY
  In a pregnant manner; fruitfully; significantly.
• PROCREANT
  Generating; producing; productive; fruitful; assisting in procreation. "His pendent bed and procreant cradle." Shak.
• TEEMING
  Prolific; productive. Teeming buds and cheerful appear. Dryden.
• PROLIFICACY
  Prolificness.
• CHILDBED
  The state of a woman bringing forth a child, or being in labor; parturition.
• GENERATIVE
  Having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing. "That generative particle." Bentley.
• FRAUGHT
  A freight; a cargo. Shak. (more info) D. vracht, G. fracht, cf. OHG. fr merit, reward; perh. from
• PROLIFICAL
  Producing young or fruit abundantly; fruitful; prolific. -- Pro*lif"ic*al*ly, adv.
• CHILDISHLY
  In the manner of a child; in a trifling way; in a weak or foolish manner.
• GODCHILD
  One for whom a person becomes sponsor at baptism, and whom he promises to see educated as a Christian; a godson or goddaughter. See Godfather.
• RETROGENERATIVE
  Begetting young by retrocopulation.
• UNFRUITFUL
  Not producing fruit or offspring; unproductive; infertile; barren; sterile; as, an unfruitful tree or animal; unfruitful soil; an unfruitful life or effort. -- Un*fruit"ful*ly, adv. -- Un*fruit"ful*ness, n.
• ESTEEM
  1. To set a value on; to appreciate the worth of; to estimate; to value; to reckon. Then he forsook God, which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. Deut. xxxii. 15. Thou shouldst esteem his censure and authority to be of
• MISESTEEM
  Want of esteem; disrespect. Johnson.
• STEEM
  See SPENSER
• DISESTEEMER
  One who disesteems. Boyle.
• INSIGNIFICANT
  1. Not significant; void of signification, sense, or import; meaningless; as, insignificant words. 2. Having no weight or effect; answering no purpose; unimportant; valueless; futile. Laws must be insignificant without the sanction of rewards and
• INSIGNIFICANTLY
  without significance, importance, or effect; to no purpose. "Anger insignificantly fierce." Cowper.
• ESTEEMABLE
  Worthy of esteem; estimable. "Esteemable qualities." Pope.
• IMPROLIFICATE
  To impregnate. Sir T. Browne.