Fecund
adjective
To be able to produce many babies, plants or ideas.
The female rabbit is extremely fecund and can birth several litters a year.
Often appears as...
- fecund soil
- fecund mind
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
adjective
Fertile and conducive to the growth of plants and crops.
The fecund soil of the river valley produced a bountiful harvest.
Often appears as...
- fecund land
- fecund earth
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
adjective
Fertile or high in intellectual productivity.
His fecund mind was always churning out new and innovative ideas.
Often appears as...
- fecund imagination
- fecund creativity
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
adjective
To be able to produce many babies, plants or ideas.
The female rabbit is extremely fecund and can birth several litters a year.
Often appears as...
- fecund soil
- fecund mind
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
adjective
Fertile and conducive to the growth of plants and crops.
The fecund soil of the river valley produced a bountiful harvest.
Often appears as...
- fecund land
- fecund earth
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
adjective
Fertile or high in intellectual productivity.
His fecund mind was always churning out new and innovative ideas.
Often appears as...
- fecund imagination
- fecund creativity
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/2Biological Productivity
Primarily refers to animal or human reproduction, suggesting high fertility and the ability to have many offspring.
The fecund pair contributed significantly to the population growth of the endangered species.
Pro Tip 2/2Idea Generation
Can be metaphorically applied to someone's mind, indicating they are constantly coming up with creative or innovative thoughts.
The writer's fecund imagination kept her fans eagerly waiting for her next book.
Pro Tip 1/2Biological Productivity
Primarily refers to animal or human reproduction, suggesting high fertility and the ability to have many offspring.
The fecund pair contributed significantly to the population growth of the endangered species.
Pro Tip 2/2Idea Generation
Can be metaphorically applied to someone's mind, indicating they are constantly coming up with creative or innovative thoughts.
The writer's fecund imagination kept her fans eagerly waiting for her next book.
Pro Tip 1/2Biological Productivity
Primarily refers to animal or human reproduction, suggesting high fertility and the ability to have many offspring.
The fecund pair contributed significantly to the population growth of the endangered species.
Pro Tip 2/2Idea Generation
Can be metaphorically applied to someone's mind, indicating they are constantly coming up with creative or innovative thoughts.
The writer's fecund imagination kept her fans eagerly waiting for her next book.
Never forget "Fecund"
Humans forget easily. That's why you should download WordUp: Smart reminders, word games, AI practice, and much more!
Video examples
How civilization could...
You talk about different types of vulnerability. So the easiest type to understand is a technology that just makes it very easy to cause massive amounts of destruction. Synthetic biology might be a fecund source of that kind of black ball,
Video examples
How civilization could...
You talk about different types of vulnerability. So the easiest type to understand is a technology that just makes it very easy to cause massive amounts of destruction. Synthetic biology might be a fecund source of that kind of black ball,
Example 1 of 1
Quote examples
Tyne Daly
American Actress
Women are usually only interesting to studio executives when they are fecund, between the ages of 15 and 30. I decided to get through the really tough patch, around 50, by just cutting my price and playing ten years older. I didn't want to have to wait until I was an old lady to play one.
Quote examples
Paul Samuelson
American Economist
The Malthusian Theory - that mankind, for biological and sociological reasons, is so fertile, so fecund, that if you started out with the new continent and plenty of land for everybody, in several generations we would multiply our numbers.
Quote examples
Sue Hubbell
American Author
You have to take springtime on its own terms in the Ozarks: there is no other way. It can't be predicted. It is unsteady, full of promise, promise that is sometimes broken. It is also bawdy, irrepressible, excessive, fecund, willful.
Quote examples
Giordano Bruno
Italian Philosopher
There is one simple Divinity found in all things, one fecund Nature, preserving mother of the universe insofar as she diversely communicates herself, casts her light into diverse subjects, and assumes various names.
Quote examples
Dervla Kirwan
Irish Actress
I was pregnant with my first child and so gloriously happy. I felt fecund and powerful.
Quote examples
Tyne Daly
American Actress
Women are usually only interesting to studio executives when they are fecund, between the ages of 15 and 30. I decided to get through the really tough patch, around 50, by just cutting my price and playing ten years older. I didn't want to have to wait until I was an old lady to play one.
Quote examples
Paul Samuelson
American Economist
The Malthusian Theory - that mankind, for biological and sociological reasons, is so fertile, so fecund, that if you started out with the new continent and plenty of land for everybody, in several generations we would multiply our numbers.
Quote examples
Sue Hubbell
American Author
You have to take springtime on its own terms in the Ozarks: there is no other way. It can't be predicted. It is unsteady, full of promise, promise that is sometimes broken. It is also bawdy, irrepressible, excessive, fecund, willful.
Quote examples
Giordano Bruno
Italian Philosopher
There is one simple Divinity found in all things, one fecund Nature, preserving mother of the universe insofar as she diversely communicates herself, casts her light into diverse subjects, and assumes various names.
Quote examples
Dervla Kirwan
Irish Actress
I was pregnant with my first child and so gloriously happy. I felt fecund and powerful.
Example 1 of 5
WordUp Chrome Extension
As you browse the web instantly look up words you don’t know.
Get Chrome Extension