Word Meanings - PROLIFIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Proliferous. (more info) pro for, forward + the root of alere to nourish) + facere to make. 1. Having the quality of generating; producing young or fruit; generative; fruitful; productive; -- applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing

Additional info about word: PROLIFIC

Proliferous. (more info) pro for, forward + the root of alere to nourish) + facere to make. 1. Having the quality of generating; producing young or fruit; generative; fruitful; productive; -- applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing young, etc.; -- usually with the implied idea of frequent or numerous production; as, a prolific tree, female, and the like. 2. Serving to produce; fruitful of results; active; as, a prolific brain; a controversy prolific of evil.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PROLIFIC)

• Fertile
• Rich
• luxuriant
• teeming
• productive
• exuberant
• causative
• conducive
• pregnant
• fraught
• prolific
• fecund
• fruitful
• ingenious
• inventive
• Fruitful
• Productive
• effectual
• useful
• successful
• fertile
• abundant
• plenteous
• plentiful
• Pregnant
• Procreant
• generative
• significant
• replete
• with child
• enceinte
• efficient
• Teeming
• Present
• overflowing
• swarming
• multitudinous
• numerous

Related words: (words related to PROLIFIC)

• CHILDSHIP
  The state or relation of being a child.
• INVENTIVE
  Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; as, an inventive head or genius. Dryden. -- In*vent"ive*ly, adv. -- In*vent"ive*ness, n.
• OVERFLOWINGLY
  In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.
• INGENIOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being ingenious; ingenuity.
• CHILDISHNESS
  The state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect.
• PLENTIFUL
  1. Containing plenty; copious; abundant; ample; as, a plentiful harvest; a plentiful supply of water. 2. Yielding abundance; prolific; fruitful. If it be a long winter, it is commonly a more plentiful year. Bacon. 3. Lavish; profuse; prodigal.
• CAUSATIVE
  1. Effective, as a cause or agent; causing. Causative in nature of a number of effects. Bacon. 2. Expressing a cause or reason; causal; as, the ablative is a causative case.
• CHILDED
  Furnished with a child.
• CHILDBIRTH
  The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor. Jer. Taylor.
• PRESENT
  one, in sight or at hand, p. p. of praeesse to be before; prae before 1. Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent. These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. John xiv. 25.
• PRESENTIVE
  Bringing a conception or notion directly before the mind; presenting an object to the memory of imagination; -- distinguished from symbolic. How greatly the word "will" is felt to have lost presentive power in the last three centuries. Earle. --
• PRESENTANEOUS
  Ready; quick; immediate in effect; as, presentaneous poison. Harvey.
• 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
• PRESENTLY
  1. At present; at this time; now. The towns and forts you presently have. Sir P. Sidney. 2. At once; without delay; forthwith; also, less definitely, soon; shortly; before long; after a little while; by and by. Shak. And presently the fig tree
• 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.
• SWARM
  To climb a tree, pole, or the like, by embracing it with the arms and legs alternately. See Shin. At the top was placed a piece of money, as a prize for those who could swarm up and seize it. W. Coxe.
• OVERFLOWING
  An overflow; that which overflows; exuberance; copiousness. He was ready to bestow the overflowings of his full mind on anybody who would start a subject. Macaulay.
• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• 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.
• INNUMEROUS
  Innumerable. Milton.
• INEFFICIENT
  1. Not efficient; not producing the effect intended or desired; inefficacious; as, inefficient means or measures. 2. Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or remiss; effecting little or nothing; as, inefficient workmen;
• 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.
• NONPRESENTATION
  Neglect or failure to present; state of not being presented.