| Main Entry: | vegetate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be very passive |
Synonyms: |
be inert, decay, deteriorate, exist, go to pot, go to seed, hibernate, idle, languish, loaf, pass time, stagnate, weaken |
Antonyms: |
activate, carry out, do |
| Main Entry: | vegetate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | grow, sprout |
Synonyms: |
bloom, blossom, bud, burgeon, germinate, shoot, spring, swell |
Antonyms: |
die, go to seed |
| Main Entry: | germinate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | grow |
Synonyms: |
bud, develop, generate, live, originate, pullulate, shoot, sprout, swell, vegetate |
Antonyms: |
halt, slow, stop, thwart |
| Main Entry: | grow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become larger, evolve |
Synonyms: |
abound, advance, age, amplify, arise, augment, become, branch out, breed, build, burgeon, burst forth, come, come to be, cultivate, develop, dilate, enlarge, expand, extend, fill out, flourish, gain, germinate, get bigger, get taller, heighten, increase, issue, luxuriate, maturate, mature, mount, multiply, originate, pop up, produce, propagate, pullulate, raise, ripen, rise, shoot*, spread, spring up, sprout, stem, stretch, swell, thicken, thrive, turn, vegetate, wax, widen |
Antonyms: |
decline, decrease, diminish, halt, lessen, reduce, stop, stunt |
| Main Entry: | hibernate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lie dormant; sleep through cold weather |
Synonyms: |
hide, hole up, immure, lie torpid, sleep, vegetate, winter |
| Main Entry: | loaf |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be idle, lazy |
Synonyms: |
be inactive, be indolent, be slothful, be unoccupied, bum around, bum*, dally, dillydally, dream, drift, evade, fool around, fritter away, goldbrick, hang out*, idle, kill time, knock around, laze, let down, lie, loiter, loll, lounge, lounge around, malinger, not lift a finger, pass time, piddle, relax, saunter, shirk, sit around, slack, slow down, stall, stand around, stroll, take it easy, trifle, twiddle thumbs, vegetate, waste time, while away hours |
Antonyms: |
achieve, do, energize, labor, work hard |
| Main Entry: | sprout |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | develop |
Synonyms: |
bud, burgeon, germinate, grow, push, shoot, shoot up, spring, take root, vegetate |
Antonyms: |
die, shrink, shrivel |
| Main Entry: | stagnate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | deteriorate by lack of action |
Synonyms: |
constipate, decay, decline, fester, go to seed, hibernate, idle, languish, lie fallow, not move, putrefy, rot, rust, stall, stand, stand still, stifle, stultify, trammel, vegetate |
Antonyms: |
grow, strengthen |
| Main Entry: | veg out |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | relax slothfully |
Synonyms: |
lie dormant, relax, stagnate, vegetate |
| Main Entry: | laze |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | idle |
Synonyms: |
be inactive, be indolent, be slothful, be unoccupied, bum around, bum*, dally, dillydally, dream, drift, evade, fool around, fritter away, goldbrick, hang out*, kill time, knock around, let down, lie, loaf, loiter, loll, lounge, lounge around, malinger, not lift a finger, pass time, piddle, relax, saunter, shirk, sit around, slack, slow down, stall, stand around, stroll, take it easy, trifle, twiddle thumbs, vegetate, waste time, while away hours |