prolific
adjective
producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful.
unprolific
-
a word derived from
prolific.
Example Sentences
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Biographer Frank McShane, Professor of creative writing at Columbia University, offers sheaves of contradictions from Raymond Chandler's long but unprolific career.
From Time Magazine Archive
The outstanding picture in the bequest, Sassetta's Our Lady of the Snow, is arguably the greatest surviving work by this unprolific Sienese master and worth, according to a spokesman at Christie's, "about $1,500,000."
From Time Magazine Archive
Our modern taste—alas!—no limit knows; O'er hill, o'er dale, through wood and field it flows; Spreading o'er all its unprolific spawn, In never-ending sheets of vapid lawn.
From Rookwood by William Harrison Ainsworth
Mr. Doubleday maintains that, as people become better fed, they become unprolific.
From Principles Of Political Economy Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical, and Explanatory Notes, and a Sketch of the History of Political Economy by John Stuart Mill
It sleeps: and the icy touch Of unprolific winter has impressed A cold stagnation on the intestine tide.
From The Task and Other Poems by William Cowper
