prolific

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj

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

/pɹəˈlɪf.ɪk/ /ˌpɹoʊˈlɪf.ɪk/ en-us-prolific.ogg

prolific more prolific most prolific prolifick

First use appears c. 1635. From French prolifique and its etymon Latin prōlificus, from prōlēs (“offspring”) + -ficus (“making”).

fertile fecund

antiprolific hyperprolific improlific nonprolific overprolific prolificacy prolifically prolification prolificity prolificness unprolific

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