'Vegetate' definitions:
Definition of 'vegetate'
From: WordNet
verb
Lead a passive existence without using one's body or mind
verb
Establish vegetation on; "They vegetated the hills behind their house"
verb
Produce vegetation; "The fields vegetate vigorously"
verb
Grow like a plant; "This fungus usually vegetates vigorously"
verb
Grow or spread abnormally; "warts and polyps can vegetate if not removed"
verb
Propagate asexually; "The bacterial growth vegetated along"
verb
Engage in passive relaxation; "After a hard day's work, I vegetate in front of the television" [syn: vege out, vegetate]
Definition of 'Vegetate'
From: GCIDE
- Vegetate \Veg"e*tate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Vegetated; p. pr. & vb. n. Vegetating.] [L. vegetatus, p. p. of vegetare to enliven. See Vegetable.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. To grow, as plants, by nutriment imbibed by means of roots and leaves; to start into growth; to sprout; to germinate. [1913 Webster]
- See dying vegetables life sustain, See life dissolving vegetate again. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Fig.: To lead a life too low for an animate creature; to do nothing but eat and grow. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
- Persons who . . . would have vegetated stupidly in the places where fortune had fixed them. --Jeffrey. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Med.) To grow exuberantly; to produce fleshy or warty outgrowths; as, a vegetating papule. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'vegetate'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- be a sideliner,
- be still,
- blossom,
- brew,
- bud,
- burgeon,
- burst forth,
- coast,
- delay,
- develop,
- do nothing,
- drift,
- flourish,
- fust,
- gather,
- gemmate,
- germinate,
- grow,
- grow rank,
- grow up,
- hang fire,
- hibernate,
- hypertrophy,
- idle,
- increase,
- just be,
- languish,
- leaf,
- leaf out,
- leave,
- lie dormant,
- luxuriate,
- mature,
- merely exist,
- mushroom,
- not budge,
- not stir,
- outgrow,
- overdevelop,
- overgrow,
- overrun,
- overtop,
- pass the time,
- procreate,
- pullulate,
- put forth,
- put forth leaves,
- put out buds,
- reproduce,
- rest,
- riot,
- root,
- shoot,
- shoot up,
- sit back,
- sit it out,
- sleep,
- slumber,
- smolder,
- spring up,
- sprout,
- sprout up,
- stagnate,
- strike root,
- take root,
- thrive,
- tower,
- upshoot,
- upspear,
- upspring,
- upsprout,
- wait and see,
- watch and wait,
- wax
Words containing 'Vegetate'
- Vegetability,
- Vegetable,
- Vegetal,
- Vegetality,
- Vegetated,
- Vegetating,
- Vegetation,
- Vegetative,
- Vegetatively,
- Vegetativeness,
- Vegete,
- Vegetism,
- Vegetive,
- Vegetous,
- vegetational,
- Vegetable alkali,
- Vegetable brimstone,
- Vegetable butter,
- Vegetable flannel,
- Vegetable gelatin,
- Vegetable ivory,
- Vegetable jelly,
- Vegetable kingdom,
- Vegetable leather,
- Vegetable marrow,
- Vegetable metamorphosis,
- Vegetable oyster,
- Vegetable parchment,
- Vegetable sheep,
- Vegetable silk,
- Vegetable sponge,
- Vegetable sulphur,
- Vegetable tallow,
- Vegetable wax,
- Vegetation of salts,
- cruciferous vegetable,
- julienne vegetable,
- leafy vegetable,
- raw vegetable,
- root vegetable,
- solanaceous vegetable,
- vegetable albumin,
- vegetable fibrin,
- vegetable garden,
- vegetable hummingbird,
- vegetable matter,
- vegetable oil,
- vegetable patch,
- vegetable pear,
- vegetable soup,
- vegetable turpeth,
- vegetative cell,
- italian vegetable marrow