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

After life support was withdrawn, autopsies confirmed that she was indeed in a “persistent vegetative state.”

From Slate • Dec. 8, 2025

“Alani continues to suffer from profound and life-altering consequences due to the injuries she sustained. She remains paralyzed and in a vegetative state,” prosecutors said.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2024

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

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

vegetative

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