Word meaning
prolific
adjective · pruh-LIF-ik
What does prolific mean?
Prolific means producing much fruit, many offspring, or many works.
Prolific in a sentence
“Agatha Christie was a prolific writer, with over sixty detective novels.”
Synonyms for prolific
- productive
- fruitful
- fertile
How to remember prolific
- Say it out loud a few times: pruh-LIF-ik.
- Write one sentence of your own using prolific, about something that happened to you today.
- Quiz yourself tomorrow, in three days, and next week. Spaced reviews are what make new words stick.
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