different between cultivable vs fruitful

English

Etymology

From French cultivable, from Old French coutivable

Adjective

cultivable (comparative more cultivable, superlative most cultivable)

1. Capable of being cultivated or farmed.
   • 1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter IX. "The Sea and the Desert", page 183.

     These, and such as these, were all the cultivated and cultivable land in Provincetown.

Synonyms

• cultivatable
• arable

Derived terms

• uncultivable

Translations

French

Etymology

cultiver +? -able

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kyl.ti.vabl/

Adjective

cultivable (plural cultivables)

1. cultivable

Further reading

• “cultivable” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Spanish

Adjective

cultivable (plural cultivables)

1. arable, cultivable

English

Alternative forms

• fruitfull (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English fruitefull, equivalent to fruit +? -ful. Compare Dutch vruchtvol, German fruchtvoll, Swedish fruktfull.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?u?tf?l/
• Hyphenation: fruit?ful

Adjective

fruitful (comparative more fruitful, superlative most fruitful)

1. Favourable to the growth of fruit or useful vegetation; not barren.

   Synonym: fertile

   Antonyms: barren, infertile, unfruitful
2. Being productive in any sense; yielding benefits.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:productive

   Antonym: unfruitful

Synonyms

• fruitious (obsolete)

Related terms

• fruitfully
• fruitfulness

Translations

References

• fruitful in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• fruitful in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.