- pronunciation:
- pr
lI
fihk
- features:
- Word Parts
| part of speech: |
adjective |
| definition 1: |
producing young or new growth in abundance; fertile.
Weeds are highly prolific plants.- synonyms:
- fecund, fertile
- antonyms:
- barren
- similar words:
- fruitful, generative, lush, luxuriant, luxurious, productive, proliferative, yielding
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| definition 2: |
creating new works or ideas in abundance; productive.
Charles Dickens was a prolific author who completed fourteen novels.- synonyms:
- fecund, productive
- antonyms:
- unproductive
- similar words:
- creative, fertile, generative
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| related words: |
bounteous, bountiful, exuberant, rich |
| derivations: |
prolifically (adv.), prolificness (n.) |
The word prolific
contains the following part:
-fic
Latin
adjective-forming suffix
that means
making, doing, causing
More about this word part:
The suffix -fic
occurs in adjectives that are Latin loanwords, and hence attaches to bases that are Latin noun roots. It is a form of "fer, lat2, -late".
Example words: