Prolific
1prolific — PROLÍFIC, Ă, prolifici, ce, adj. (Despre fiinţe) Care se înmulţeşte foarte repede. ♦ Care are facultatea de a se înmulţi. – Din fr. prolifique. Trimis de oprocopiuc, 22.04.2004. Sursa: DEX 98 PROLÍFIC adj. 1. prăsitor, (pop.) puios, (reg.)… …
2Prolific — Pro*lif ic, a. [F. prolifique, fr. L. proles offspring (from pro for, forward + the root of alere to nourish) + facere to make. See {Adult}, {Old}, and {Fact}.] [1913 Webster] 1. Having the quality of generating; producing young or fruit;… …
3prolific — is derived from the Latin word proles meaning ‘offspring’, and is properly applied to someone or something that produces either offspring or something compared to offspring such as writings, works of art, etc. Like many adjectives in English (e.g …
4prolific — [prō lif′ik, prəlif′ik] adj. [Fr prolifique < ML prolificus < L proles (gen. prolis), offspring < pro , PRO 2 + base of alere, to nourish (see ALIMENT) + facere, to make, DO1] 1. producing many young or much fruit 2. turning out many… …
5prolific — I adjective abundant, breedy, copious, creative, fecund, feracious, fertile, fruitbearing, fruitful, generative, philoprogenitive, procreative, productive, profuse, progenitive, proliferative, proliferous, rich, teeming, verbose, wordy, yielding… …
6prolific — 1640s, from Fr. prolifique, from M.L. prolificus, from L. proles offspring + root of facere to make (see FACTITIOUS (Cf. factitious)). L. proles is from PIE *pro al , from *pro forth (see PRO (Cf …
7prolific — fruitful, *fertile, fecund Analogous words: teeming, swarming, abounding (see TEEM): generating, breeding, propagating, reproducing or reproductive (see corresponding verbs at GENERATE) Antonyms: barren, unfruitful …
8prolific — [adj] fruitful, productive abounding, abundant, bountiful, breeding, copious, creative, fecund, fertile, generating, generative, luxuriant, profuse, proliferant, rank, reproducing, reproductive, rich, spawning, swarming, teeming, yielding;… …
9prolific — ► ADJECTIVE 1) producing much fruit or foliage or many offspring. 2) (of an artist, author, etc.) producing many works. 3) plentiful. DERIVATIVES prolifically adverb. ORIGIN Latin prolificus, from proles offspring …
10prolific — [[t]prəlɪ̱fɪk[/t]] 1) ADJ GRADED A prolific writer, artist, or composer produces a large number of works. She is a prolific writer of novels and short stories... During the Seventies, Rundgren was astonishingly prolific. 2) ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n… …
