Adjective: fertile
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more fertile |
| Superlative | most fertile |
Sample Sentences
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Taking advantage of the river's fertile floodplain, residents of the town of Skardu cultivate apricot, apple, and peach orchards in the sandy soil. [1987 October, Galen Rowell, “Baltistan: The 20th Century Comes to Shangri-la”, in National Geographic, volume 172, number 4, page 529:]
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Most women at the age of fifty are not fertile.
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There are two basic fertile materials: uranium-238 and thorium-232.
Adjectives inflected like fertile
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Middle English, from Middle French fertile, from Old French fertile, from Latin fertilis (“fruitful, fertile”), from ferō (“to bear, carry”). See: Latin Adjectives '
fertilis'.
Verbs referencing "fertile"
Finnish Adjectives
fertiili.