Fruitful vs. Successful — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Fruitful and Successful
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Definitions
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