Fecund
adjective /ˈfɛk(ə)nd/ — Producing an abundance of growth, offspring, or creative work.
Definition
Producing or capable of producing an abundance of offspring, vegetation, or creative work — highly fertile and generative.
Beyond the definition
Fecund is the word for generative abundance — the delta that produces extraordinary crops, the artist with too many ideas, the season of greatest growth. It is fertility taken past the merely productive into the overwhelming. Some minds are fecund; some landscapes are fecund; some eras of history are fecund in ways their inhabitants can barely keep up with.
Origin & history
From Latin fecundus (fruitful, fertile), from fetus (bearing fruit). Related to the root that gives fetus — the condition of actively producing life.
Example sentences
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The Amazon delta is among the most fecund ecosystems on Earth.
He was fecund as a thinker — the problem was choosing between too many good ideas.
The 1960s were fecund for a particular kind of social experiment — some of which outlasted their originators.
How to use it
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Choose “Fecund” when the meaning fits your context: Producing or capable of producing an abundance of offspring, vegetation, or creative work — highly fertile and generative.
Synonyms
fertile, prolific, generative, productive
Antonyms
barren, infertile, sterile, unproductive
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Questions about this word
What does "Fecund" mean?
Fecund is adjective meaning: Producing an abundance of growth, offspring, or creative work.. Producing or capable of producing an abundance of offspring, vegetation, or creative work — highly fertile and generative.
Where does the word "Fecund" come from?
From Latin fecundus (fruitful, fertile), from fetus (bearing fruit). Related to the root that gives fetus — the condition of actively producing life.