fruitful
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++fruit·ful /ˈfruːtfəl/ ●○○ adjective 1 RESULTproducing good results 富有成效的 OPP fruitless Today’s meeting proved more fruitful than last week’s. 事实证明今天的会议比上星期的更有成效。 a busy and fruitful time 忙碌而有成效的一段时间 a fruitful source of information 有用的信息来源2. literaryTAS land that is fruitful produces a lot of crops 〔土地〕多产的，丰饶的 SYN fertile —fruitfully adverb —fruitfulness noun [uncountable]Examples from the Corpus
fruitful• So far, the investigation has not been very fruitful.• His critical judgments about quantitative sociology also are not sufficiently illuminating at a craft level to make quantitative analysis more fruitful.• It was certainly one of the most fruitful and continuous debates that the West has ever known.• This was one of the most fruitful debates of the conference.• Mr. Baker and I have had a very fruitful discussion.• 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.• And how fruitful it was - our valley.• Hopefully the book will help you not only to identify the polarities but also to see the means of fruitful reconciliation.• If the talks prove fruitful, the working groups will start bargaining in May.• Basic needs theorists argue that it is more fruitful to stress results rather than inputs in order to measure the adequacy of development policy.fruit·ful adjectiveChineseSyllable
good producing Corpus results
fruitful
fruit‧ful /ˈfruːtfəl/
adjective
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]
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:
2. literary land that is fruitful produces a lot of crops
SYN fertile
—fruitfully adverb
—fruitfulness noun [uncountable]