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Antonyms for fecund

Grammar : Adj
Spell : fee-kuhnd, -kuh nd, fek-uhnd, -uh nd
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfi kʌnd, -kənd, ˈfɛk ʌnd, -ənd

Definition of fecund

Origin :
  • early 15c., from Middle French fecond, from Latin fecundus "fruitful, fertile, productive," from *fe-kwondo-, suffixed form of Latin root *fe-, corresponding to PIE *dhe(i)- "to suck, suckle," also "produce, yield" (cf. Sanskrit dhayati "sucks," dhayah "nourishing;" Greek thele "mother's breast, nipple," thelys "female, fruitful;" Old Church Slavonic dojiti "to suckle," dojilica "nurse," deti "child;" Lithuanian dele "leech;" Old Prussian dadan "milk;" Gothic daddjan "to suckle;" Old Swedish dia "suckle;" Old High German tila "female breast;" Old Irish denaim "I suck," dinu "lamb").
  • Also from the same Latin root come felare "to suck;" femina "woman" (*fe-mna-, literally "she who suckles"); felix "happy, auspicious, fruitful;" fetus "offspring, pregnancy;" fenum "hay" (probably literally "produce"); and probably filia/filius "daughter/son," assimilated from *felios, originally "a suckling."
  • adj productive
Example sentences :
  • A woman who has one child has proved that she is fecund, but has not proved that she is fertile.
  • Extract from : « The Task of Social Hygiene » by Havelock Ellis
  • A woman with six children has proved that she is not only fecund but fertile.
  • Extract from : « The Task of Social Hygiene » by Havelock Ellis
  • It was bliss, it was the nucleolating of the fecund darkness.
  • Extract from : « The Rainbow » by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
  • The fecund sap, their generative virtue, escapes and diminishes at every gleam.
  • Extract from : « The Sea » by Jules Michelet
  • Where is this fecund chaos, rich in worlds, that hides the generations that are to be?
  • Extract from : « The Philosophy of Disenchantment » by Edgar Saltus
  • Takes you right back to fecund mud and the first seminal atom.
  • Extract from : « The Tower of Oblivion » by Oliver Onions
  • Let it be the mission of all that is best in America to cement this fecund union!
  • Extract from : « The Forerunners » by Romain Rolland
  • Ours is, scarcely less than the British, a living and fecund system.
  • Extract from : « Congressional Government » by Woodrow Wilson
  • She seems an integral part of the prairie, broad-bosomed, fecund, opulent.
  • Extract from : « The Prairie Wife » by Arthur Stringer
  • Her fecund people within a couple of generations would people the coast-line and prepare for the colonisation of the interior.
  • Extract from : « Problems of the Pacific » by Frank Fox

Synonyms for fecund

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