Prolific means producing a great deal. A prolific writer, prolific scorer, prolific in output.
It counts output rather than quality, which is why calling somebody prolific is praise with a gap in it. Of animals and plants it means breeding or fruiting heavily. Note that the Latin means offspring-making, from proles, offspring — so the writing sense is a metaphor from breeding.
1adjectiveprolificProducing a great deal.
“She is a prolific writer who publishes two novels a year.”
synonyms: productive, fertile
prolific is a quality of abundant output.
Also accepted in games: productive
Latin prolificus is proles, offspring, plus -ficus, making. Proletarian comes from the same offspring.
Latin
prōlificus
French
prolifique
English, today
prolific
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First use appears c. 1635. From French prolifique and its etymon Latin prōlificus, from prōlēs (“offspring”) + -ficus (“making”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA