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Definition of fruitful adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

fruitful

adjective
 
/ˈfruːtfl/
 
/ˈfruːtfl/
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  1. producing many useful results synonym productive
    • a fruitful collaboration/discussion
    • a fruitful source of information
    • Official manuals can be a potentially fruitful source of information.
    • The research has proved extremely fruitful.
    opposite fruitless
    Extra Examples
    • This research has been particularly fruitful in helping our understanding of the disease.
    • It was a very fruitful discussion.
    • There was a close and fruitful collaboration between scientists and engineers.
    • Sometimes the questionnaires had remarkably fruitful results.
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs
    • be
    • prove
    adverb
    • extremely
    • fairly
    • very
    preposition
    • in
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  2. (literary) (of land or trees) producing a lot of crops
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