fecund

C2 Topic:Describing Qualities

US /ˈfɛk.ənd/ UK /ˈfɛk.ənd/ See IPA manual

Freq #81902

Meanings

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adj
Leading to new ideas or innovation.

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.

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Synonyms

1 adj · leading to new ideas or... fertile productive prolific

Word family

Derived forms fecundabilityfecundate fecundationfecundifyfecundistfecundizefecundlyinfecundsuperfecundunfecund

Related forms fecundity

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Phrases (1)

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fecund imagination
an imagination that produces many ideas or inventions

Adjective + noun

Etymology

From Middle French fécond, from Latin fēcundus (“fertile”), which is related to fētus and fēmina (“woman”).

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Describing Qualities

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