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prolific
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  • I'm beginning to see that crops on Mars are extremely prolific, thanks to the billions of dollars' worth of life support equipment around me.  (source)
    prolific = produce abundantly
  • "Marvelous painter. Very prolific. And this is a particularly beautiful example," he said, with all a collector's pride.  (source)
    prolific = producing abundantly (creating a lot of paintings)
  • And no one could accuse him of not being prolific in his chosen metier.  (source)
    prolific = highly productive (creating abundantly)
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  • My mother went through the most prolific period in her life while I was recovering.  (source)
    prolific = productive
  • Unseasonably cold weather, meanwhile, makes people cheat prolifically; so do heavy rain and wind.†  (source)
  • There the house was with the nine windows, the unprolific vine.†  (source)
    unprolific = not abundantly produced
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unprolific means not and reverses the meaning of prolific. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • I said that I wasn't terribly prolific.  (source)
    prolific = productive (in his writing)
  • They grow prolifically and have a reasonable caloric content (770 calories per kilogram).  (source)
    prolifically = abundantly
  • I fear the prolific nature of your religion will make that a trying task.†  (source)
  • Those things were introduced as a control, once the big green rabbits had become such a prolific and resistant pest.†  (source)
  • One of the faculty wives—one especially prolific with progeny, and one whose maternal girth was more substantial than well coordinated—slipped under the Volkswagen as it was being returned to its wheels; although she was not hurt, she was wedged quite securely under the stubborn automobile.†  (source)
  • The rule was you could only buy work done by students in your own year, but that still gave us plenty to choose from, since most of us could get pretty prolific over a three-month period.†  (source)
  • SEATTLE TERRORIZED BY SLAYINGS It's been less than a decade since the city of Seattle was the hunting ground for the most prolific serial killer in U.S. history.†  (source)
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