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vegetating
adjective as in budding
noun as in idleness
Strong matches
noun as in inactivity
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in inertness
Strong matches
noun as in inoperativeness
Weak matches
- dawdling
- dilly-dallying
- dormancy
- droning
- goof-off time
- hibernation
- idleness
- inactivity
- indolence
- inertia
- inertness
- joblessness
- laze
- lazing
- leisure
- lethargy
- loafing
- loitering
- otiosity
- own sweet time
- pottering
- shiftlessness
- sloth
- slothfulness
- slouch
- slowness
- sluggishness
- stagnation
- stupor
- time on one's hands
- time to burn
- time to kill
- time-wasting
- torpidity
- torpor
- trifling
- truancy
- unemployment
Example Sentences
"But you've not been vegetating all the time," said Leonard, looking her over as coolly as if she had been a horse.
I'd sooner be gossiping with Alphonse and Pierre in the cloisters than vegetating here.
In exceptional instances papillomatous or vegetating lesions have been observed.
Maybe he spent his forty-two months of vegetating driving against those blocks until he partially broke them down and could speak.
In those glowing climes the Banyan was regarded as the tree of trees, and the mighty centre of vegetating life.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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