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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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Multiple doctors deemed him to be in an extreme vegetative state, meaning that he did not have the typical brain function to exhibit mood or affect, cognitive functioning, executive functioning, language, or memory.

From Slate • Dec. 8, 2025

He believes a will helps prevent problems for both families and doctors when a patient is in a vegetative state and beyond recovery.

From BBC • Feb. 2, 2025

In addition, the research team found that remaining in a vegetative state was an unlikely outcome by six-months after injury.

From Science Daily • May 13, 2024

He said gardeners can buy a pack of green onions from the store and use the green vegetative growth for cooking before planting just the bulbs.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2024

Nikki had been out of a coma for two weeks now, but these vegetative days seemed harder than all the others.

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

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.