Synonyms & related words for vegetate

Find synonyms, related words, and the definition of vegetate — including grow, germinate, languish, burgeon, thrive, overgrow. Dendril is a free visual thesaurus that shows them on an interactive map where stronger matches sit closer to the center — no signup, no ads.

Words related to vegetate

Explore words related to vegetate — words associated with it, words that go with it, and its nearest matches in meaning. Related words include revegetate, vegetation, germinant, vegetational, regerminate, laze, vegetative, subsist. Click any word to make it the center of the map and keep exploring the web of connections.

Synonyms for vegetate

Common synonyms for vegetate include grow, germinate, languish, burgeon, thrive, overgrow — words that share a close meaning. Hover or tap any word on the map for its definition and part of speech.

Where does vegetate come from?

The word vegetate breaks down into one root of Latin origin: the root veget-, from Latin vegetare (“enliven, grow”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.