ISEE/SSAT Vocabulary BuilderWordsFfecund
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fecund
Meaning: highly fertile or productive
fecund in a sentence
How fecund is used in real sentences:
The poet's fecund imagination produced dozens of vivid characters.
The laboratory became a fecund source of new medical ideas.
“The comparison proved fecund, and by week's end the team had cataloged dozens of cases that neither rule handled well: students with two rooms, fishers gone for months, and grandparents rotating among homes.”
— from the passage Who Counts in Dockside
“The garden, however, was fecund: pear trees bent under fruit, foxgloves crowded the paths, and seedlings thrust through cracks in the abandoned tennis court.”
— from the passage The House at Mallow End
Synonyms for fecund
Other words for fecund — fertile, fruitful and prolific — carry the same meaning.
- fertile
- fruitful
- prolific
Antonyms of fecund
Words that mean the opposite of fecund:
- barren
- sterile
- unproductive
Where it comes from
From Latin fecundus, meaning 'fertile or fruitful.'
Memory hook
FECUND starts like 'feed': rich soil feeds fecund fields.