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Fruitful vs. Successful — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Fruitful and Successful

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Fruitful

Producing fruit, especially in abundance.

Successful

Having a favorable outcome
A successful heart transplant.

Fruitful

Producing offspring, especially in abundance.

Successful

Having obtained something desired or intended
Was successful in stopping the leak of oil.

Fruitful

Capable of producing vegetation
Fruitful soil.

Successful

Having achieved wealth or eminence
A successful architect.
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Fruitful

Producing useful or desired results; productive
A fruitful collaboration.
A fruitful suggestion.

Successful

Resulting in success; assuring, or promoting, success; accomplishing what was proposed; having the desired effect
A successful use of medicine;
A successful experiment;
A successful enterprise

Fruitful

Favourable to the growth of fruit or useful vegetation; not barren.

Successful

Resulting in success; assuring, or promotive of, success; accomplishing what was proposed; having the desired effect; hence, prosperous; fortunate; happy; as, a successful use of medicine; a successful experiment; a successful enterprise.
Welcome, nephews, from successful wars.

Fruitful

Being productive in any sense; yielding benefits.
The extra work in the office turned out to be fruitful after all—I got promoted

Successful

Having succeeded or being marked by a favorable outcome;
A successful architect
A successful business venture
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Fruitful

Full of fruit; producing fruit abundantly; bearing results; prolific; fertile; liberal; bountiful; as, a fruitful tree, or season, or soil; a fruitful wife.
Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth.
[Nature] By disburdening growsMore fruitful.
The great fruitfulness of the poet's fancy.

Fruitful

Productive or conducive to producing in abundance;
Be fruitful and multiply

Fruitful

Productive of profit;
A profitable enterprise
A fruitful meeting

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