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

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

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. Adam Balen:

   There had previously been uncertainty as to whether ovarian tissue taken from young girls would later on be competent to produce mature, fertile eggs, so today's case is both reassuring and exciting.

2. John McFarlane:

   There's probably more fertile ground internationally than domestically from the early sights we've had.

3. Munin Das:

   The land on both sides is equally fertile, however we suffer as we don’t have any irrigation facilities there. This takes a major toll on our land on the other side of the border, we have been traditionally dependent on the rainwater for our cultivation (for) generations, but now as the rainfall has become unpredictable, it is not possible.

4. Steffen Mau:

   Many people experienced unemployment, very long periods of insecurity or even existential crisis and the result of that is that they developed a habit of' keeping and defending' and are not willing to accept more social change, populism falls on fertile ground, people are very much willing to say' they defend what we have, they defend our culture, they defend our borders,'.

5. Jiri Ovcacek:

   Our country simply cannot afford to risk terrorist attacks like what occurred in France and Germany. By accepting migrants we would create fertile ground for barbaric attacks, the president does not agree with any acceptance of migrants in the Czech territory.