Prolific
/pɹəˈlɪf.ɪk/ adj
adj ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Fertile; producing offspring or fruit in abundance, applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing young, etc.
- 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 Of a flower: from which another flower is produced.
Adjective
- 1 bearing in abundance especially offspring wordnet
- 2 intellectually productive wordnet
Example
More examples"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”).