Prolific

//pɹəˈlɪf.ɪk// adj

adj ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Fertile; producing offspring or fruit in abundance, applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing young, etc.
  2. 2
    Similarly producing results or performing deeds in abundance.

    "However appealing Antibes may be to migrant authors, indigenous ones are relatively scarce. A notable exception is Jacques Audiberti, Antibes-born novelist and prolific playwright who wrote in the turn-of-the-century surrealist style, with titles that translate as Slaughter, or In Favour of Infanticide."

  3. 3
    Of a flower: from which another flower is produced.
Adjective
  1. 1
    bearing in abundance especially offspring wordnet
  2. 2
    intellectually productive wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
fecundfertilefruitfulproductiveaboundingabundant

Example

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"My friends say I'm a prolific writer, but I haven't written anything for months."

Etymology

1635: from French prolifique and its etymon Latin prōlificus, from prōlēs (“offspring”) + -ficus (“making”).

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