| 单词 | vegetative |
| 释义 | vegetative (once / 9441 pages) adj Use the adjective vegetative to describe a physically or mentally inactive person. If you lie around on the couch all day flipping TV channels, your sister may accuse you of being in a vegetative state. Watching television can be a vegetative activity, because certain shows require little thinking on the part of the viewer. Someone describing a vegetative state is either talking about a lazy friend, or — more seriously — a patient whose brain is damaged, leaving him unable to move, speak, or think. The original meanings of the word had more to do with growth than inactivity, but by the late 1800's doctors began using vegetative to describe patients who resembled vegetables rather than moving, thinking humans. WORD FAMILYvegetative: vegetatively+/vegetate: vegetated, vegetates, vegetating, vegetation, vegetative/vegetation: vegetational, vegetations USAGE EXAMPLESIn a Dec. 28 Medical Examiner, Jeremy Samuel Faust described brain death and vegetative states as the same. Slate(Dec 30, 2016) He mentioned a man from the neighborhood who was left in a vegetative state when an S.U.V. plowed into his car a few weeks earlier. New York Times(Aug 20, 2016) It usually leads to a person being in one of three states - coma, vegetative state, minimally conscious state. BBC(Dec 21, 2016) 1adj composed of vegetation or plants the decaying vegetative layer covering a forest floor Syn vegetal, vegetational 2adj relating to involuntary bodily functions vegetative functions such as digestion or growth or circulation Syn involuntary controlled by the autonomic nervous system; without conscious control 3adj (of reproduction) characterized by asexual processes Syn vegetal asexual, nonsexual not having or involving sex 4adj of or relating to an activity that is passive and monotonous a dull vegetative lifestyle Syn vegetive |
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