prolific

Meanings

• adjective

  Producing works in large quantities or at a great rate.

  - "The prolific author wrote 10 novels in one year."
  - "Despite being prolific, the painter still struggled to make ends meet."

• adjective

  Giving rise to a large number of offspring.

  - "The prolific species of beetle lays hundreds of eggs at a time."
  - "The prolific farm produced an abundant harvest."

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Pronunciation

1. /ˌpɹoʊˈlɪf.ɪk/
   
   
   
   Source: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=80925648"

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Synonyms

fecund , fertile

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Rhymes

Words rhyming with prolific
epic , mic , picnic

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Variants

List of all variants of prolific that leads to same result
prolific , prolificacies , prolificacy , prolifically , prolificness , prolificnesses

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Etymology

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From Latin prolificus, meaning 'abundantly producing', from prolificare, 'to bring forth abundantly'.

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Trivia

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1. The word prolific comes from the Latin word prolificus, which means 'abundantly producing'.

2. The prolific author Ernest Hemingway once wrote an average of 500 words per day.

3. The prolific insect, the aphid, can produce over 100 offspring in a single generation.

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Related Concepts

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1. productivity: Prolific is related to productivity, as both terms refer to the ability to produce a large amount of output.

2. fertile: Prolific is related to the term fertile, as both terms refer to the ability to produce offspring or ideas in large quantities.

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Quotes

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1. Here there are {it}La{/it} restaurants, wine bars, bookshops, estate agents more "prolific" than doctors, and attractive people in black, few of them aging.

   - Hanif Kureishi,{it}Granta 22{/it},Autumn 1987

2. The main rival to his pneumonia was the "prolific" thrush which went into his throat and stomach.

   - Irvine Welsh,{it}Trainspotting{/it},1993

3. Since [David] Mamet is a "prolific" writer of Hollywood screenplays, there are today more people who know his work than know that they know it.

   - Juliet Fleming,{it}Times Literary Supplement{/it},18 Feb. 2000

4. A writer as established and "prolific" as Joyce Carol Oates can approach her material in a wealth of ways unavailable to the more plodding.

   - Jane Smiley,{it}New York Times Book Review{/it},5 May 1991

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Culture

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Prolific has been used in various contexts, such as in literature to describe authors who have written numerous works, and in science to describe organisms that reproduce at a high rate. In art, the term can be used to describe artists who create a large body of work.

How to Memorize "prolific"

1. visualize
   

   - Visualize a tree that produces an abundance of fruit or a writer with a large pile of books.

2. associate
   

   - Associate the word prolific with the idea of abundance or productivity.

3. mnemonics
   

   - Create a mnemonic such as 'Prolific Produces Plenty' to help remember the meaning of the word.

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