Prolific

Definition: Prolific

Prolific

Adjective

1. Intellectually productive; "a prolific writer"; "a fecund imagination".

2. Bearing in abundance especially offspring; "flying foxes are extremely prolific"; "a prolific pear tree".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "prolific" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Prolific \Pro*lif"ic\, adjective. [French expression prolifique, from the Latin expression proles offspring (from pro for, forward the root of alere to nourish) facere to make. See Adult, Old, and Fact.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Prolific

Production

Adjective: produced, producing; Verb: productive of; prolific; creative; formative, genetic, genial, genital; pregnant; enceinte, big with, fraught with; in the family way, teeming, parturient, in the straw, brought to bed of; puerperal, puerperous.

Productiveness

Adjective: productive, prolific; teeming, teemful; fertile, fruitful, frugiferous, fruit-bearing; fecund, luxuriant; pregnant, uberous.

Utility

Advantageous; (beneficial); profitable, gainful, remunerative, worth one's salt; valuable; prolific; (productive).

Crosswords: Prolific

Romanian (copious, fertile, fruitful, pregnant, prolific, voluminous).

References

• Prolific Income Plc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• Cue the Bunny on the Rainbow: Tales from Tv's Most Prolific Sitcom Director (Television Series) (reference)

• Prolific Sheep (reference)

• Prolific Survivors: Population Change in Cambodia, 1975-1993 (reference)

• The Prolific Pencil: A Biography of Joseph Crosby Lincoln, Litt. D. (reference)

• Young at Eighty: The Prolific Public Life of Michael Young (reference)

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Birds! Birds! Birds! Prolific fishing grounds mean large populations of sea birds. Credit: Fisheries.

Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Guayule shrub in blossom. If growing conditions are good, the plant is a prolific seeder and the seeds have relatively high visability. Guayule plantings will produce a estimated 600 tons of rubber in 1943, provide a crop. Credit: Library of Congress.

The man who has made the whole world laugh, Chas. Hoyt America's prolific author, A Texas steer .... Credit: Library of Congress.

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No study is more efficacious and more prolific in instruction.

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Economic History

Denmark

Among today's Danish writers, probably the most well-known to American readers is Peter Hoeg (Smilla's Sense of Snow; Borderliners) and the most prolific is Klaus Rifbjerg--poet, novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. (references)

Russia

In Western Siberia, Tyumen Oblast is known for its prolific gas and oil reserves. (references)

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Beginning with "prolific": prolific-growing.

Albanian

pjellor (fat, fecund, fertile, fruitful, genital, loamy, mellow, pinguid, rich), shumëpjellëshe, shumë prodhues, me shumë fëmijë, e shtueshme. (various references)

Arabic 

‏كثيرالنسل, ‏كثير الإ نتاج, ‏منتج (creator, fecund, fruitful, procreator, producer, productive), ‏مثمر (fertile, fructiferous, fruitful, juicy, lucrative, plenteous, productive, profitable, profitably, yielding), ‏ولود (fecund, fertile, pregnant), ‏خصيب (fertile), ‏خصب (fat, fecund, fertile, fertility, fruitful, lush, pregnant, prodigal, prodigality, productive, profuse, rich). (various references)

Bulgarian 

който има последици, водещ към, богат (abounding, bounteous, fat, full, generous, halcyon, heavy, high, lordly, luxuriant, mellow, moneyed, opulent, plenteous, podded, pregnant, princely, prodigal, profuse, rank, rich, silk stocking, slap up, substantial, wanton, wealthy, well heeled, well off, well-fixed), плодороден (benign, benignant, corny, fat, fecund, fertile, fruitful, generous, hearty, plenteous, productive, rank, rich), плодовит (copious, exuberant, fecund, fertile, fruitful, pregnant, productive, reproductive, voluminous), изобилствуващ (abounding, fertile), изобилен (abounding, abundant, affluent, bountiful, copious, exuberant, fat, flush, free, good, hefty, liberal, luxuriant, opulent, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, prodigal, productive, profuse, rank, redundant, rich, substantial, thick, unstinted, wealthy). (various references)

Chinese 

多产 (Fecund, Prolifical). (various references)

Czech

plodný (copious, fertile, fruitful, pregnant, procreative, productive, rich). (various references)

Farsi 

فراوان (Abundant, Affluent, Ample, Bounteous, Copious, Exuberant, Galore, Plenty, Profuse, Rampant, Rife, Superabundant, Unsparing, Very), پرکار (Hardworking, Overwrought), پرزا, نیرومند (Frank, Hale, Main, Mighty, Nervy, Potent, Rugged, Stout, Strong, Valiant, Vigorous), حاصلخیز (Pergnant), بارور. (various references)

Finnish

tuottelias (productive), sikiäväinen (fecund), sikiävä (fecund). (various references)

French

prolifique (procreative), fécond (pregnant). (various references)

German

produktiv (fertile, productive, productively, proliferous), fruchtbar (fecundly, fertile, fruitful, fruitfully, generous, plentiful, pregnant, productive, rankly, rich, seminal, useful). (various references)

Greek 

γόνιμοσ (fecund, fertile), εύκαρποσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

פור�" (fecund, fertile, fruitful, productive), פריו� י (fertile). (various references)

Hungarian

termékeny (benign, fat, fecund, fertile, fraught, fruitful, luxuriant, plentiful, prolifical, rich, spawning), szapora (fleet, prolifical, reproductive, smart, spawning, to breed like rabbits), burjánzó (gross, prolifical, rampant, rank, sprawling). (various references)

Italian

prolifico (proliferative). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

健筆家　 (prolific writer). (various references)

Manx

sluightoil (fruitful, lineal), sluightagh (descendant, fruitful), sheelaghtagh, messoil (fructiferous, fruitful). (various references)

Pig Latin

olificpray

Portuguese

prolífico (chock-full, fruitful, philoprogenitive, teeming), produtivo (active, fertile, fruitful, philoprogenitive, plenteous, productive, yielding), fértil (chock-full, fertile, fruitful, generous, philoprogenitive, plenteous, pregnant, productive, rich, teeming), cheio (bursting, chock-full, complete, flush, fraught, full, overflowing, overgrown, philoprogenitive, plump, rank, replete, round, stuffed, teeming, thick, tumid), abundante (abundant, abundantly, ample, bounteous, chock-full, copious, flush, frequent, full, generous, large, lumping, numerous, opulent, philoprogenitive, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, profuse, rich, teeming, thick-set, unsparing, wanton). (various references)

Romanian

prolific (copious, fertile, fruitful, pregnant, voluminous), rodnic (fertile, fruitful, plenteous, plentiful, pregnant, productive), fecund (fecund, rich, voluminous). (various references)

Russian 

плодовитый (fecund, fruitful, philoprogenitive, productive, proliferous). (various references)

Scottish

sìolmhor (a. prolific). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

plodan (arable, fecund, fertile, fruitful, pinguid, progenitive, rank). (various references)

Spanish

prolífico. (various references)

Swedish

fruktbar (conceptional, conceptive, fat, fecund, fertile, fruitful, fruitfull, productive). (various references)

Turkish

verimli (abundant, bonanza, copious, effective, efficient, exuberant, fat, fecund, fertile, fruitful, generous, grateful, high speed, loamy, pregnant, procreant, procreative, producing, productive, rank, rich, yielding), doğurgan (fecund, fertile, procreant, procreative), üretken (active, copious, fertile, generative, originative, procreative, producing, productive, reproductive), çabuk üreyen, çabuk çoğalan. (various references)

Ukrainian

рясний (abundant, ample, copious, exuberant, fertile, lavish, opulent, plentiful, plenty, profuse, rich, torrential), плодовитий (philoprogenitive, voluminous), плодоносний (bearing, fructiferous, fruitful). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sinh sản nhiều, sản xuất nhiều. (various references)

Welsh

epilgar (teeming). (various references)

proles. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "prolific": prolificacies, prolificacy, prolifically, prolificities, prolificity, prolificness, prolificnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Prolific" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Polyfil, polyfix, polyfoil, proclitic, prolfic, prolif, prolife, prolifer, prolifi, prolifixc, pyrolytic. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: frolic.

-4 letters: clip, clop, coif, coil, coir, corf, crop, fico, filo, flic, flip, floc, flop, foci, foil, liri, loci, pili, prof, roil, rolf.

-5 letters: col, cop, cor, fil, fir, fop, for, fro, lip, lop, oil, orc, pic, poi, pol, pro, rif, rip, roc.

+3 letters: prolificacy, prolificity.

+4 letters: proficiently, profligacies, prolifically, prolificness.

+5 letters: childproofing, parfocalities, parfocalizing, prolificacies, prolificities.