fecund

[ fee-kuhnd, -kuhnd, fek-uhnd, -uhnd ]

adjective

1. producing or capable of producing offspring, fruit, vegetation, etc., in abundance; prolific; fruitful:

   fecund parents; fecund farmland.

2. very productive or creative intellectually:

   the fecund years of the Italian Renaissance.

fecund

/ ˈfiːkənd; ˈfɛk- /

adjective

1. greatly productive; fertile
2. intellectually productive; prolific

Other Words From

• non·fecund adjective
• un·fecund adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of fecund¹

1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin fēcundus, equivalent to fē- ( fetus ) + -cundus adj. suffix; replacing late Middle English fecounde < Anglo-French

Word History and Origins

Origin of fecund¹

C14: from Latin fēcundus ; related to Latin fētus offspring

Example Sentences

And while it’s true that Thiel and others in Vance’s right-wing intellectual community have some pretty radical long-term goals—basically, they’d like the U.S. to become a society of fecund, traditionalist blue-collar families ruled benevolently by monarchlike techno gods—Trump himself seems likely to have different priorities, i.e., killing the prosecutions in which he is a defendant, turning over foreign policy to his allies and business partners in Russia/Israel/Saudi Arabia, etc., and finally carrying out his beloved border/deportation crackdown.

From Slate

The great Medfly cafeterias of the Central Valley and the Imperial Valley, the fecund cornucopias of the nation, lay vulnerable — but arguably out of reach, Brown calculated.

From Los Angeles Times

In addition, Smith tries to carve out interactions involving top Pence aides Marc Short and Greg Jacob — another fecund source of evidence related to the former vice president — as unofficial for the immunity opinion’s purposes because “the defendant was not involved and did not otherwise direct” their conduct.

From Los Angeles Times

“I don’t think it’s possible to have a conversation about figuration without going back to this very fecund moment of Black artistic development.”

From New York Times

The painting creaks with fecund joy, as if it wants to go on flourishing.

From New York Times