Crossword-Solution: VEGETATIVE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Vegetative | a. | Growing, or having the power of growing, as plants; capable of vegetating. |
| Vegetative | a. | Having the power to produce growth in plants; as, the vegetative properties of soil. |
| Vegetative | 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. |
We have 22 clues for the answer “VEGETATIVE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Kind of state | 5 answers |
| BOTANIC | 7 answers |
| plantlike | 7 answers |
| photosynthesizing | 7 answers |
| Leguminous | 9 answers |
| paralysed | 36 answers |
| immobilised | 37 answers |
| sedentary | 40 answers |
| unintellectual | 42 answers |
| nerveless | 43 answers |
| vegetal | 43 answers |
| Stationary | 44 answers |
| benumbed | 45 answers |
| ANAESTHETISED | 45 answers |
| handicapped | 46 answers |
| Brainless | 46 answers |
| disabled | 47 answers |
| stagnant | 48 answers |
| Passionless | 48 answers |
| stupefied | 54 answers |
| Motionless | 56 answers |
| insensitive | 65 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETREA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with VEGETATIVE (5)
Troy was full of activity, but his activities were less of a locomotive than a vegetative nature; and, never being based upon any original choice of foundation or direction, they were exercised on whatever object chance might place in their way.
The Arched Window From the inertness, or what we may term the vegetative character, of his ordinary mood, Clifford would perhaps have been content to spend one day after another, interminably,—or, at least, throughout the summer-time,—in just the kind of life described in the preceding pages.
Dangerous? Of course she's dangerous--as dangerous as Nature! Just as dangerous, just as self-centred, as in its small way is that vegetative organism the volvox, which, when food is scarce and the race is threatened, against possible need of insemination, creates separate husband cells to starve in clusters, while 'she' hogs all the food-supply for the production of eggs.
Were the rest absent or inactive, we should have a man reduced, as it were, to the lowest terms, and leading an almost vegetative existence.
You, who are a florist, you know whether it is ever possible to restore the broken stem, to revive the faded colors, to make the sap flow again in the tender vessels of which the whole vegetative function lies in their perfect rigidity.
Quotes with VEGETATIVE (3)
Nothing sweeter than to drag oneself along behind events; and nothing more reasonable. But without a strong dose of madness, no initiative, no enterprise, no gesture. Reason: the rust of our vitality. It is the madman in us who forces us to adventure; once he abandons us, we are lost; everything depends on him, even our vegetative life; it is he who invites us, who obliges us to breathe, and it is also he who forces our blood to venture through our veins. Once he withdraws, w…
Right now, the economy is a whole lot like a fairly good-looking brain-dead chick in a persistent vegetative coma. You can't really wake her up, but there's things she's still good for.
some of the happiest moments of my life have occurred just before I fall asleep or wake up, when I linger in that twilight world between consciousness and unconsciousness, in a state of somnolent repose but also savoring the vital goodness of remaining this close to the vegetative in myself
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1995).