/ˈfek.ənd/ (adj)

Definition

able to produce or reproducing a lot of fruit, crops or offspring, prolific and active, fruitful, spawning, rich, lush, productive, flourishing, fertile

Example

Reputation: Rabbits breed like rabbits. They are pests.

Reality: Rabbits do not always breed like rabbits, especially not in the wild. In its ancestral home on the Iberian peninsula, the European rabbit is threatened with extinction.

When it comes to reproduction, rabbits have something of a reputation. Is it fair? Well, yes and no.

Female rabbits are fecund and can get pregnant again as soon as they’ve given birth.

It is true that rabbits have a suite of nifty adaptations that allow for prolific reproduction.

The European rabbit becomes sexually active at just three or four months old. Females ovulate in response to copulation, so the time of the month is moot. Gestation lasts less than a month and litter size is typically around five.

Rabbits can keep up this frenetic reproductive pace for as long as conditions allow. In theory, a female at full procreative tilt could birth scores of baby rabbits a year.

Source: http://www.bbc.com/

Antonyms

infertile

Parts of speech

Noun: fecundity

Adverb: fecundly

/prəˈlɪf.ər.eɪt/ (verb)

Definition

to grow or increase rapidly in number, procreate, multiply, breed, burgeon, boom, spawn, flourish, bloom, rocket, thrive, reproduce, replicate, mushroom, snowball, propagate

Example

Rabbits are noted for their prolific breeding ability, but the popular phrase “breeding like rabbits” isn’t quite the whole story. Many animals bear a lot of offspring, so what makes rabbits so special?

A few factors make the eastern cottontail rabbit — and rabbits in general — notable in the breeding department. To start with, cottontail rabbits are able to proliferate at a very young age, as young as 2 months to 3 months old, according to the Animal Diversity Web. Rabbits also have a short gestation period, between 25 and 28 days, which means they can have several litters of babies each year.

Source: https://www.reconnectwithnature.org/

Antonyms

dwindle, die out

Parts of speech

Noun: proliferation

Noun: proliferator

Adjective: proliferative

Adjective: prolific

Adjective: proliferous: producing and growing many cells rapidly

Adverb: proliferatively

/məˈtjʊəʳ/ (adj & verb)

Adjective: fully developed or ripe, matured, established – experienced, full-grown, skilled, adult

Verb: to become mature, ripen, develop, flourish, grow up, mellow

All people grow up and mature.

They turn 20, they turn 40, and soon 60 – and then they die.

So when does maturity occur amid all these years? They must have gone through something, right? Like, experiences and learning process that molded them.

Maturity isn’t something that simply happens as you grow up. You need to put an effort into gaining emotional or psychological maturity that you strive for.

Source: https://vishalostwal.com

Antonyms: raw, undeveloped, immature, naïve, young

Noun: maturity

Noun: matureness

Adverb: maturely

/ˈbɜː.dʒən/ (verb)

to start developing or growing quickly, flourish, thrive, prosper, increase rapidly, boom, escalate, expand, swell, snowball, augment, multiply, mushroom, proliferate

This thesis analyses eighteenth-century portraiture within the context of ‘norms’ propagated in contemporary prescriptive and fictional literature, ‘norms’ which overlay a heterogeneous reality. The aspirant portraitist had to accord with the desire of sitters to be depicted in a manner that would receive approbation. Thus, disparate relationships were pictorially subsumed within affectionate ideals that burgeoned in the mid eighteenth century, stimulated by the cult of sensibility and disseminated through an expanding body of literature to an expanding readership.

Source: http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/

Antonym: dwindle

Adjective: burgeoning

Adjective: burgeoned

Nurture 1100 Words You Need

/ˈnɜː.tʃəʳ/ (noun & verb)

Verb

1. to give food to someone and take care of him so that they can develop and grow, take care of young thing, feed, nourish, look after, raise, rear, foster
2. to help and support a plan or person to develop and thrive, encourage someone or something to flourish, cherish, cultivate
3. to keep a feeling or emotion in the mind, to have a particular emotion or idea for a long time

Noun: care that is given to the young, attention, assistance, support, upbringing, development, raising, rearing, education, cultivation, growth, increase, evolution

Providing for your child’s physical needs (food, shelter, clothing) is a fairly straightforward matter. Trying to provide for your child’s emotional needs can be trickier. Although there are many parenting styles, most experts agree on some general guidelines for nurturing a child’s emotional health and laying the ground work for an emotionally healthy adulthood.

Source: https://www.everydayhealth.com/

Antonyms: destroy, destruction

Noun: nurturer

Farsi: پرورش ، تربيت ، تغذيه ، غذا، بزرگ کردن ( کودک)، بار اوردن بچه ، پروردن

Flourish English Flashcard (noun & verb)

/ˈflʌr.ɪʃ/ US /ˈflɝː-/

verb: 1. to grow and become more and more successful – develop – thrive – succeed:

In this fertile land, plants can flourish very soon.

2. to wave something in your hand so that other people could notice that:

He beckoned me by flourishing his hat.

Antonyms

fail, collapse

Prosper (verb) /ˈprɒs.pəʳ/ US /ˈprɑː.spɚ/

to be successful, especially financially – succeed financially – flourish – do well – thrive:

He was determined to prosper and climb up the ladder of success.

Antonyms

decline, fail, collapse

Parts of Speech

• Noun: prosperity
• Adjective: prosperous
• Adverb: prosperously