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

/ ˈfɛk-; ˈfiːkənd /

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

Virgin Galactic was one of a crop of private companies to sprout, mushroom-like, from the fecund decay of American spaceflight in the early 2000s.

From Washington Post

Monica West’s “Revival Season” is an emotionally fecund and spellbinding debut novel.

From Washington Post

Best to go with the fecund middle period, three novels sometimes referred to as “The London Trilogy.”

From The Daily Beast

That openness made the early Google a chaotically fecund operation.

From The Daily Beast

Whether he was writing about sex, golf, or life in a small town, the fecund mind who gave the world Rabbit was never at rest.

From The Daily Beast

The more religion appeals to the senses, the more fecund has been the vocabulary of oaths.

From Project Gutenberg

They are conceived of fecund nods and looks, of the germination of writing and initials and signatures and contract-stamps.

From Project Gutenberg

A new sense came to her, not altogether depressing, of life's fecund possibility for unhappiness.

From Project Gutenberg

And this sea also pleases me by the treasures of fecund life which I know to abound in its dark depths.

From Project Gutenberg

Besides, a science made solely in view of applications is impossible; truths are fecund only if bound together.

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