Synonyms for fertile
ˈfɜr tl; esp. Brit. -taɪlfer·tile

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1. fertileadjective

   Antonyms:
   infertile

2. fertileadjective

   Antonyms:
   infertile

3. fertileadjective

   Antonyms:
   infertile

4. fertileadjective

   Antonyms:
   infertile

5. fertileadjective

   Antonyms:
   infertile

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1. fertile

   Synonyms:
   rich, luxuriant, teeming, productive, exuberant, causative, conducive, pregnant, fraught, prolific, fecund, fruitful, ingenious, inventive

   Antonyms:
   poor, sterile, barren, unproductive, ineffective, inconducive, fruitless, inoperative, uninventive, unimaginative

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1. fertileadjective

   capable of reproducing

   Synonyms:
   prolific, productive, fecund, rich, fat

   Antonyms:
   sterilised, sterile, barren, unfruitful, unproductive, unfertile, sterilized, infertile, unfertilized, unfertilised, unimpregnated

2. fecund, fertile, prolificadjective

   intellectually productive

   "a prolific writer"; "a fecund imagination"

   Synonyms:
   prolific, fat, fecund, productive, rich

   Antonyms:
   sterilized, unfertilized, unfertilised, sterilised, barren, unfruitful, infertile, unproductive, unfertile, unimpregnated, sterile

3. prolific, fertileadjective

   bearing in abundance especially offspring

   "flying foxes are extremely prolific"; "a prolific pear tree"

   Synonyms:
   prolific, fat, fecund, productive, rich

   Antonyms:
   unproductive, unfertile, unimpregnated, unfruitful, sterile, infertile, unfertilized, sterilised, barren, unfertilised, sterilized

4. fat, fertile, productive, richadjective

   marked by great fruitfulness

   "fertile farmland"; "a fat land"; "a productive vineyard"; "rich soil"

   Synonyms:
   fat, fecund, fatty, generative, robust, full-bodied, juicy, copious, deep, plentiful, racy, productive, ample, rich, prolific, plenteous

   Antonyms:
   unfertile, unproductive, unfertilised, barren, unfruitful, unfertilized, sterilised, infertile, sterile, sterilized, unimpregnated

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:3.0 / 3 votes

1. fertileadjective

   Synonyms:
   prolific, fecund, not barren

2. fertileadjective

   Synonyms:
   fruitful, productive, rich, plenteous, luxuriant, exuberant, teeming

3. fertileadjective

   Synonyms:
   (Bot.) fruit-bearing

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1. fertileadjective

   Synonyms:
   fruitful, fecund, pistillate

   Antonyms:
   infertile infecund, barren

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1. List of paraphrases for "fertile":

   fecund, fruitful, child-bearing, rich, productive

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1. Luis Buñuel:

   Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.

2. Dan Dworkin:

   With the refugee situation, there is a debate with politics…There's a debate. I think it's fertile. I think it's good for a show to make people talk like that.

3. Premier Mike Baird:

   After careful consideration, the NSW Government has determined that coal mining under these highly fertile black soil plains... poses too great a risk for the future of this food-bowl and the underground water sources that support it.

4. Oscar Auliq-Ice:

   There’s always something that you sacrifice with each of your choices. When you choose you and your dreams, and you commit to them no matter what, you sacrifice the excuses, the stories, the old limiting beliefs; providing a rich ground of fertile soil for the seeds of your dreams to germinate.

5. Martha Nussbaum:

   The most fertile idea of the Stoics, in my view, is their analysis of emotions as containing evaluative thoughts about what is most important for one’s well-being. That view I find basically correct, though in need of a lot of further work. Their normative analysis of the emotions seems wrong to me, namely that we should get rid of them all, but they are pretty on target in their critique of anger.