infecund
Americanadjective
adjective
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- infecundity noun
Etymology
Origin of infecund
1375–1425; late Middle English infecounde < Latin infēcundus. See in- 3, fecund
Example Sentences
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Does it not require much fuller demonstration than the author anywhere presents to convince the ordinary mind that a people that has shown such physical vitality for so long a period, has all at once, in a single decade, become comparatively infecund and threatened with extinction?
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Antonyms: ineffervescence, defervescence. effete, a. exhausted, infecund, unfruitful, wasted, barren. efficacious, a. potent, effectual, effective, productive.
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Antonyms: infertile infecund, barren. fertility, n. fruitfulness, fecundity, richness.
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Associated words: gauntree, cooper, bilge, stave, hoop, chine. barren, a. sterile, agenestic, infecund, unprolific, unprocreant; unproductive, unfruitful, unfertile, effete, desert; unprofitable, fruitless, unremunerative, empty; stupid, dull, unimaginative, prosaic, devoid, uninspiring, uninteresting.
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Associated word: novercal. steps, n. pl. stairs; stile; perron. sterile, a. barren, infecund, unproductive, unfruitful, unprolific. sterility, v. barrenness, infecundity, unproductiveness.
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