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Vegetive

Definition: Vegetive

Vegetive

Adjective

1. Of or relating to an activity that is passive and monotonous; "a dull vegetative lifestyle".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "vegetive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1678. (references)

Synonym: Vegetive

Synonym: vegetative (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Vegetive

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Vegetability|

Adjective: rank, lush; vegetable, vegetal, vegetive.

Vegetable

Adjective: vegetable, vegetal, vegetive, vegitous; herbaceous, herbal; botanic; sylvan, silvan; arborary, arboreous, arborescent, arborical; woody, grassy; verdant, verdurous; floral, mossy; lignous, ligneous; wooden, leguminous; vosky, cespitose, turf-like, turfy; endogenous, exogenous.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Vegetive

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

vegetive

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Vegetive

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-e-g-i-t-v-v"

-2 letters: vegete.

-3 letters: evite, vegie.

-4 letters: give, vive.

-5 letters: eve, gee, get, gie, git, tee, teg, tie, vee, veg, vet, vie, vig.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-e-g-i-t-v-v"
 

+2 letters: vegetative.

 

+4 letters: vegetatively.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Vegetive


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

56 65 67 65 74 69 76 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010110 01100101 01100111 01100101 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#101 &#103 &#101 &#116 &#105 &#118 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 0065 0067 0065 0074 0069 0076 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5671737186758871

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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