No one wants to spend many years waiting for success. People want to invest money or effort quickly in order to get the most out of it in one season. If their investment or business idea is fruitful, it means the soon fulfillment of the dream of enrichment. A better life is just around the corner! But why do enterprises use such “agricultural” terms to indicate success?
Territory of Meanings
Russian people, like any other, are initially closely associated with agriculture. Peasant life gave the population food, clothing, tools for self-defense and shelter for a long time. Therefore, some of the concepts from it are rooted in the language. Nutrition was in the first place in priority, as a result, the key criterion for the development of territories was their fruitfulness. That is, the ability to give as much yield as possible with limited resources. The characteristic was applied in relation to:
to the ground;
moisture, etc.
They meant a beneficial effect on plants. However, this value is now considered obsolete! How is the term interpreted now?
The breath of time
Just look at the synonyms of “fruitful” to understand the meaning of the word:
productive;
effective;
constructive;
prolific;
useful, etc.
It describes an action or phenomenon that accelerates the construction and development of something. It can be about teaching, the work of a marketer or a specially designed closed environment by scientists, in which microorganisms can freely frolic without fear of external influences. The second, and valid at the moment, interpretation speaks of creating conditions for growth and evolution.
In parallel, there is a third meaning, which is applied to the object producing the action. Not only training, but the teacher himself can be fruitful: his graduates win olympiads, enter the best universities and lead humanity into the future. The definition applies to a scientist in the case of incredible breakthroughs or a large number of articles in subject journals.
Actual characteristic
What do we get at the output? In the realities of the 21st century, “fruitful” is a person or his activity in absolutely any field that helps personal or social growth, as well as cultural, intellectual, financial.
The phrases are positively colored and often serve as praise. And in the basic meaning, the word is used only in books to give color. Although nothing prevents you from showing off erudition and surprising people with a poetic description of the land in your summer cottage!