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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But noise, as well as glare, are typically buffered with vegetative landscaping and setbacks, or the distance between the property line and the nearest structure.

From Salon • Apr. 27, 2026

Sarah, the ex-girlfriend who perhaps knew him most intimately closest to his aneurysm, told Slate she never spoke to him about whether he would want to stay alive in a vegetative state.

From Slate • Dec. 8, 2025

“So to get back to that natural ecosystem, vegetative structure, you really do need a ton of plants.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 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

Yet it was obvious to everybody that the eighth grade president was not hospitalized, not suffering from amnesia, not in a vegetative state, and was very, very much alive.

From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman

vegetative

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