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prolific

prəˈlɪfɪkadjective

What does prolific mean?

Producing a great deal of work, fruit, or offspring.

Prolific, six ways

PlainProducing a great deal of work, fruit, or offspring.
ADHDMakes a lot. Books, songs, apples. Keeps going.
Gen ZSomeone who puts out work nonstop. An album a year, a novel a season.
MetaphorAn apple tree that will not stop.
FormalProducing much fruit, foliage, or offspring; of a creator, producing many works.
Like I’m 5Someone who makes a lot of things, like a writer with fifty books. That’s prolific.

How to pronounce prolific

pruh-LIF-ik/prəˈlɪfɪk/

Prolific in a sentence

He was a prolific letter writer.
A prolific baker, he brings bread every Friday.
Agatha Christie was famously prolific.

Synonyms for prolific

productivePlainer.
fertileProducing much, often ideas or land.
abundantPlentiful, of things rather than people.

Where prolific comes from

Latin. Proles, offspring, and facere, to make.

Good to know

Used of writers, artists, plants and animals. It is about quantity; it says nothing about quality.

Prolific meaning, on a Gloss card: Producing a great deal of work, fruit, or offspring.

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