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Antonyms for prolific
prəˈlɪf ɪkpro·lif·ic

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  1. prolificadjective

    Synonyms:
    fecund, fertile

  2. prolificadjective

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

    Synonyms:
    fertile, fecund

  3. prolificadjective

    Similarly producing results or works in abundance

    Synonyms:
    fecund, fertile

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. fecund, fertile, prolificadjective

    intellectually productive

    "a prolific writer"; "a fecund imagination"

    Antonyms:
    unproductive, unfruitful

    Synonyms:
    fat, fecund, productive, rich, fertile

  2. prolific, fertileadjective

    bearing in abundance especially offspring

    "flying foxes are extremely prolific"; "a prolific pear tree"

    Antonyms:
    unfruitful, unproductive

    Synonyms:
    fat, fecund, productive, rich, fertile

How to use prolific in a sentence?

  1. William Plomer:

    Johannes Meintjes… is one of the more articulate South Africans of his generation. A prolific painter, he is also a fluent author in both English and Afrikaans. With unresting curiosity about South African national and regional history, he seems blessedly free from political or racial bias, and when he writes of nations or persons in conflict is alert to what is good or bad on both sides.

  2. National Weather Service:

    These kind of prolific rainfalls are not unprecedented, but this is definitely one for the history books, we have had numerous reports of road closures. We have had roads washed out, sink holes forming.

  3. Dean Spanos:

    Simply put, Chargers NFL would not be what Chargers NFL is today without the vision of Barron Hilton, a founding father and charter member of the upstart AFL's sarcastically self-dubbed' Foolish Club,' Barron Hilton was a pioneering leader, risk-taking entrepreneur, prolific philanthropist, devoted family man and, of course, anything but foolish.

  4. Stephen Whiting:

    Since taking command as a commander about 10 months ago, I saw what I consider fundamentally incompatible and competing narratives of what America was, is and should be, that wasn't just prolific in social media, or throughout the country during this past year, but it was spreading throughout the United States military. And I had recognized those narratives as being Marxist in nature.

  5. Jim Jordan:

    It was almost as though he taught Larry Nasser what he did, doc Strauss was more prolific.

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#20743prolific
#48348unproductive
#160246unfruitful

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