From Middle English fruitefull, equivalent to fruit + -ful.

• IPA: /ˈfɹuːtfəl/

fruitful

1. Favourable to the growth of fruit or useful vegetation; not barren.

   Synonyms: fructive, fructuous

   Antonyms: barren, infertile, unfruitful

   Hypernyms: fertile

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC ↗, Genesis 1:22 ↗:

     And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

2. Being productive in any sense; yielding benefits.

   Synonyms: Thesaurus:productive

   Antonyms: unfruitful

   The extra work in the office turned out to be fruitful after all—I got promoted

• fruitious (obsolete)

• fruitfully
• fruitfulness

• German: fruchtbar
• Italian: fertile
• Portuguese: fértil, frutífero
• Russian: плодоно́сный
• Spanish: fértil

• French: fructueux
• German: fruchtbar
• Italian: proficuo, fruttuoso, produttivo
• Portuguese: produtivo, frutuoso
• Russian: плодотво́рный
• Spanish: fértil, prolífico, productivo, fructífero