Definition of "fruitful" []

• Producing fruit. (adjective)
• Conducive to productivity; causing to bear in abundance: fruitful soil. (adjective)
• Producing something in abundance; prolific: a fruitful author of fiction. (adjective)
• Producing results; profitable. See Synonyms at fertile. (adjective)

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• "He was speaking after what he called a fruitful meeting with the NSC executive at his Houghton, Johannesburg, home."
• "Accusing scientists of being wrong for pursuing a path they have found fruitful, is criticism."
• "He was not suggesting we look towards the body or the soul to the exclusion of the other, but to allow them to remain, in fruitful contest, within the imagination."