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The Meaning of vegetative

  • (a.) Growing, or having the power of growing, as plants; capable of vegetating.
  • (a.) Having the power to produce growth in plants; as, the vegetative properties of soil.
  • (a.) Having relation to growth or nutrition; partaking of simple growth and enlargement of the systems of nutrition, apart from the sensorial or distinctively animal functions; vegetal.

Synonyms

vegetal , vegetive , vegetational

Antonyms

voluntary , sexual

Rhymes

accommodative , accumulative , administrative , alliterative , appreciative , authoritative , collaborative , commemorative , cooperative , creative , dative , deliberative , facultative , imitative , innovative , investigative , iterative , legislative , manipulative , native , nonnative , probative , prognosticative , qualitative , quantitative , regulative , rehabilitative , stative , stimulative