fruitfully.

With useful or productive results from an activity or inquiry.

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Words that belong together

• fruitfully compare
• fruitfully examine

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The two accounts could be fruitfully compared after their different purposes were made explicit.

The researchers fruitfully examined the exception rather than treating it as an inconvenience.

Usage notes

Primary category: analysis / argumentation / evidence. Forms: Invariable adverb; use more or most only where natural. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: effect assessment, evidence qualification, conditional reasoning, method comparison. Disciplines: argumentation, research interpretation, analytical writing. Commonness: moderately common.