Definitions

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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After life support was withdrawn, autopsies confirmed that she was indeed in a “persistent vegetative state.”

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

Freeborn said two years of relatively heavy rainfall had spurred thick vegetative growth that has now dried and become ample fuel for wildfire.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 20, 2024

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

Within its vegetative rods there are formed, along with spores, peculiar crystals composed of a protein substance highly toxic to certain insects, especially to the larvae of the mothlike lepidopteras.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

vegetative

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