Prolific

/pɹəˈlɪf.ɪk/ · adjective

Meaning

Fertile; producing offspring or fruit in abundance, applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing young, etc..

Definitions by Sense

1. Fertile; producing offspring or fruit in abundance, applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing young, etc.
2. Similarly producing results or performing deeds in abundance.
3. (botany) Of a flower: from which another flower is produced.
4. Copious; plentiful; abundant.

Example Sentences

However appealing Antibes may be to migrant authors, indigenous ones are relatively scarce. A notable exception is Jacques Audiberti, Antibes-born novelist and prolific playwright who wrote in the turn-of-the-century surrealist style, with titles that translate as Slaughter, or In Favour of Infanticide.

The most obvious beneficiary of the visitors' superiority was Frank Lampard. By the end of the night he was perched 13th in the list of England's most prolific goalscorers, having leapfrogged Sir Geoff Hurst to score his 24th and 25th international goals. No other player has managed more than the Chelsea midfielder's 11 in World Cup qualification ties, with this a display to roll back the years.

A Chinese PhD student who is "one of the most prolific predators" in the UK has been sentenced to life with a minimum term of 24 years.

The prolific bird life around the Inlet was thinning out but grey rosellas and zebras and painted finches made the bush merry[.]

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Word Forms

• more prolific
• most prolific
• prolifick

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