fruitful

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fruit‧ful/ˈfruːtfəl/ adjective
[Word Family: noun: fruit, fruition, fruiterer; adjective: fruitful ≠ fruitless, fruity; verb: fruit; adverb: fruitfully ≠ fruitlessly]
1. producing good results OPP fruitless:
　 ▪ Today’s meeting proved more fruitful than last week’s.
　 ▪ a busy and fruitful time
　 ▪ a fruitful source of information

2. literary land that is fruitful produces a lot of crops SYN fertile

—fruitfully adverb

—fruitfulness noun [UNCOUNTABLE]

adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADVERB
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▪ Let us see then whether realism can offer a more fruitful alternative.
▪ His critical judgments about quantitative sociology also are not sufficiently illuminating at a craft level to make quantitative analysis more fruitful.
▪ Aren't there cheaper and more fruitful ways of promoting harmony between nations?
▪ The contact with Corso proved more fruitful.
▪ Basic needs theorists argue that it is more fruitful to stress results rather than inputs in order to measure the adequacy of development policy.
▪ It may be more fruitful to create a utopian, and as yet unrealized, vision to hold before our eyes.
▪ The assumption is that it is relatively more fruitful to regard our conformity, rather than our criminality, as problematic.
▪ The following are a few ideas that can help to make your practice more fruitful.
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▪ The most fruitful studies have been based on calculated energy levels.
▪ It was certainly one of the most fruitful and continuous debates that the West has ever known.
▪ You know that the best, most fruitful part of your life is over.
▪ McQueen's most fruitful period in films had been in the sixties while Dustin was still unknown outside off-Broadway.
▪ The next two years were probably the most fruitful of Scott's public life.
▪ At Stratford the Royal Shakespeare Company enjoyed its most fruitful period in years.
▪ The most fruitful procedure might well be to seek lines of explanation other than those associated with the notion of prestige.
▪ Cohn Tudge: Thus began one of the most fruitful working partnerships in modern biology.
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▪ This therefore appears to be a very fruitful area for research, with obvious implications for individuals and for the organization.
▪ And his thought was very fruitful: fore-shadowing differential and integral calculus, he put forward the useful idea of a limit.
▪ The cottages had proved to be a very fruitful searching ground.
▪ Searching for the elusive final straw is not a very fruitful activity.
▪ Looked at from this perspective, however, the distinction itself is not a very fruitful one.
▪ This wide variety of intervals is an important factor in making this series very fruitful in melodic potential.
▪ Glasgow has developed a very fruitful relationship with one of the world's most gifted directors.
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▪ Relations with the LEAs are also a fruitful source of tensions and confusions at the moment.
▪ Annual reports and accounts were a fruitful source of information.
▪ What did provide a fruitful source of conversation at dinner was the table setting.
▪ Architecture Coins are one of our most fruitful sources of information for the appearance of ancient buildings.
▪ Descriptive memoirs exist for many of the maps and these can be a fruitful source of information on mineral occurrences.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ If the talks prove fruitful, the working groups will start bargaining in May.
▪ Mr. Baker and I have had a very fruitful discussion.
▪ So far, the investigation has not been very fruitful.
▪ This was one of the most fruitful debates of the conference.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And how fruitful it was - our valley.
▪ Basic needs theorists argue that it is more fruitful to stress results rather than inputs in order to measure the adequacy of development policy.
▪ His critical judgments about quantitative sociology also are not sufficiently illuminating at a craft level to make quantitative analysis more fruitful.
▪ Hopefully the book will help you not only to identify the polarities but also to see the means of fruitful reconciliation.
▪ It was certainly one of the most fruitful and continuous debates that the West has ever known.
▪ Lacking its tumultuously fruitful influence, our mental lives would be almost as barren as the moon.
▪ This process is known as elaboration, and involves a fruitful interaction between theory and data.