fertile

Other forms of fertile

comparative

fertiler·

superlative

fertilest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about fertile

What does fertile mean?

fertile means "capable of reproducing". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fertile?

fertile has 2 syllables: fe-rtile. The stress falls on "fe". In IPA it is /ˈfɝtəl/.

What is another word for fertile?

Close synonyms include fecund, prolific, prolific, fat, productive. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of fertile?

The recorded antonyms are sterile.

Is fertile a common word?

fertile is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with fertile?

1 word rhymes with fertile. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.