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vegetative

[vej-i-tey-tiv] / ˈvɛdʒ ɪˌteɪ tɪv /
ADJECTIVE
fertile
Synonyms
STRONGEST
abundant arable fruitful lush productive rich
WEAK
bearing black bountiful breeding breedy bringing forth childbearing childing fecund feracious flowering flowing with milk and honey generative gravid hebetic loamy luxuriant plenteous plentiful pregnant procreant producing proliferant prolific puberal pubescent rank spawning teeming uberous virile with child yielding
Antonyms
STRONGEST
barren impotent sparse unfruitful unproductive
WEAK
fruitless infertile sterile useless
ADJECTIVE
herbal
Synonyms
WEAK
grassy vegetal verdant
ADJECTIVE
proliferous
Synonyms
WEAK
abundant arable bearing black bountiful breeding breedy bringing forth childing fecund feracious flowering flowing with milk and honey fruitful generative gravid hebetic loamy lush luxuriant plenteous plentiful pregnant procreant producing productive proliferant prolific puberal pubescent rank rich spawning teeming uberous virile with child yielding

Example Sentences

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Running across 63 episodes, the show tells the tale of a billionaire who falls into a vegetative state after a mysterious car accident.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026

In its vegetative state, the plot quickly becomes inert and frustrating, spinning its wheels in ways you never thought wheels could spin.

From Salon • Jan. 25, 2026

In August 2024, neurologists published a study into the potential for consciousness among vegetative or minimally conscious patients.

From Slate • Dec. 8, 2025

Unlike fungal spores, which serve a reproductive role, bacterial spores have a protective protein shield that enables bacteria to survive while in a vegetative state.

From Science Daily • Apr. 30, 2024

In the movies, coming out of the vegetative state is very sudden and very glamorous.

From "Silent To The Bone" by E.L. Konigsburg