'Prolific' definitions:
Definition of 'prolific'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Prolific'
From: GCIDE
- Prolific \Pro*lif"ic\, a. [F. prolifique, fr. L. proles offspring (from pro for, forward + the root of alere to nourish) + facere to make. See Adult, Old, and Fact.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Having the quality of generating; producing young or fruit; generative; fruitful; productive; -- applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing young, etc.; -- usually with the implied idea of frequent or numerous production; as, a prolific tree, female, and the like. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Serving to produce; fruitful of results; active; as, a prolific brain; a controversy prolific of evil. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Bot.) Proliferous. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'prolific'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abounding,
- abundant,
- alive with,
- blooming,
- bounteous,
- bountiful,
- breeding,
- bristling,
- bursting,
- bursting out,
- conceptive,
- conceptual,
- copious,
- crawling,
- creative,
- crowded,
- crowding,
- diffuse,
- diffusive,
- effusive,
- esemplastic,
- extravagant,
- exuberant,
- fecund,
- fertile,
- flourishing,
- formless,
- fructiferous,
- fruitful,
- generous,
- germinal,
- gushing,
- gushy,
- ideational,
- ideative,
- imaginative,
- in profusion,
- ingenious,
- inspired,
- inventive,
- jam-packed,
- jammed,
- lavish,
- lush,
- luxuriant,
- notional,
- original,
- originative,
- overflowing,
- packed,
- plenteous,
- plentiful,
- pleonastic,
- populous,
- pregnant,
- prodigal,
- productive,
- profuse,
- profusive,
- proliferating,
- proliferous,
- propagating,
- redundant,
- reiterative,
- repetitive,
- reproducing,
- reproductive,
- rich,
- rife,
- seminal,
- shaping,
- spawning,
- studded,
- superabundant,
- swarming,
- tautologous,
- teeming,
- thick,
- thick as hail,
- thick with,
- thick-coming,
- thriving,
- thronged,
- thronging,
- uberous,
- visioned