fecund

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /ˈfɛ.kənd/
• (America) IPA: /ˈfiː.kənd/

Adjective

fecund

1. (formal) Highly fertile; able to produce offspring.
2. (figuratively) Leading to new ideas or innovation.
   • 1906, Charles Sanders Pierce, "The Basis of Pragmatism in the Normative Sciences", in The Essential Pierce: Selected Philosophical Writings, volume II, page 373

     This idea of Aristotle's has proved marvellously fecund; and in truth it is the only idea covering quite the whole area of cenoscopy that has shown any marked uberosity.

Synonyms

• (highly fertile) fertile
• (leading to new ideas or innovation) fertile, productive, prolific

Related terms

• fecundity

Translations

• French: fécond
• German: fruchtbar
• Russian: плодови́тый
• Spanish: fecundo

Translations

• German: fruchtbar, produktiv

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