Definitions

fertile

[fur-tl, -tahyl] / ˈfɜr tl, -taɪl /

ADJECTIVE

ready to bear, produce

Synonyms

STRONGEST

abundant arable fruitful lush productive rich

WEAK

bearing black bountiful breeding breedy bringing forth childbearing childing fecund feracious flowering flowing with milk and honey generative gravid hebetic loamy luxuriant plenteous plentiful pregnant procreant producing proliferant prolific puberal pubescent rank spawning teeming uberous vegetative virile with child yielding

Antonyms

STRONGEST

barren impotent sparse unfruitful unproductive

WEAK

fruitless infertile sterile useless

Example Sentences

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It was inevitable that theater would ultimately find fertile ground in the new country.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 22, 2026

That’s ancient history to most of us, making it fertile loam for speculative interpretation.

From Salon • Jun. 21, 2026

Nine days after the Negra Francisca sank, another Ecuadorean fishing boat was trolling the fertile fishing grounds off the Galapagos.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 15, 2026

Another report found microplastics can make soil less fertile, hampering harvests.

From BBC • Jun. 15, 2026

You need water and fertile soil and seeds.

From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon

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