vegetation

The word “vegetation” has 4 syllables: veg-e-ta-tion

It's pronounced as /ˌvɛdʒəˈteɪʃən/


What is synonym and antonym for vegetation?

In the thesaurus, “vegetation” has 26 synonyms.

Here are synonyms for vegetation along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for vegetation

  • crops
  • flora
  • flowers
  • foliage
  • grasses
  • grassland
  • green
  • greenery
  • growth
  • herbage
  • herbs
  • hibernation
  • inactivity
  • leafage
  • lethargy
  • listlessness
  • plants
  • prairie
  • saplings
  • shrubs
  • trees
  • underbrush
  • undergrowth
  • vegetables
  • verdancy
  • verdure

Meanings of vegetation

  • noun
    1. Plants, taken collectively.
    2. An abnormal verrucous or fibrinous growth.
    3. The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.

Example Sentences

  • The dense vegetation in the rainforest provides habitat for countless species of animals and plants.
  • After the wildfire, new vegetation slowly began to grow in the charred landscape.
  • The expedition navigated through thick vegetation to reach the hidden waterfall.
  • Urban planners are incorporating green spaces and vegetation into city designs to improve air quality.
  • In arid regions, desert vegetation relies on sparse rainfall and moisture from the air for survival.

On this page you'll find 26 synonyms or another words to vegetation, such as: crops, flora, flowers, foliage, grasses, grassland, green.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

verdure

  • activeness
  • agility
  • bloom
  • cleanliness
  • fettle
  • fitness
  • flora
  • flush
  • flushness
  • foliage
  • freshness
  • grassland
  • green
  • greenery
  • hardiness
  • health
  • healthiness
  • heartiness
  • herbage
  • hygiene
  • leafage
  • liveliness
  • lustiness
  • prairie
  • robustiousness
  • robustness
  • ruggedness
  • sap
  • shape
  • soundness
  • spryness
  • stamina
  • strength
  • toughness
  • underbrush
  • undergrowth
  • vegetation
  • vigor
  • vigorousness
  • vitality
  • weal
  • welfare
  • well-being
  • wellness
  • wholeness
  • wholesomeness

underbrush

  • boscage
  • boskage
  • brake
  • brush
  • brushwood
  • bush
  • coppice
  • copse
  • flora
  • foliage
  • grassland
  • green
  • greenery
  • herbage
  • leafage
  • prairie
  • thicket
  • undergrowth
  • understory
  • underwood
  • vegetation
  • verdure

waxing

  • accelerating
  • acceleration
  • access
  • accession
  • accretion
  • accrual
  • accumulating
  • accumulation
  • addition
  • advance
  • advancement
  • aggrandizement
  • altering
  • ambush
  • amplifying
  • animate
  • annihilating
  • annihilation
  • appreciating
  • ascent
  • augmentation
  • augmenting
  • ballooning
  • bathing
  • beating
  • beating the pants off
  • becoming
  • beefing up
  • besting
  • bettering
  • blow
  • blowing away
  • blowing up
  • bombing
  • booming
  • boost
  • bourgeoning
  • break
  • breakdown
  • breaking
  • breakthrough
  • broadening
  • budding
  • building up
  • buildup
  • bulking
  • burgeoning
  • burying
  • capping
  • changing
  • check
  • climb
  • climbing
  • clobbering
  • collapse
  • comedown
  • coming
  • confusion
  • conquering
  • conquest
  • count
  • creaming
  • crescendoing
  • crescent
  • crescive
  • cresting
  • crop
  • crushing
  • crushing defeat
  • cultivation
  • cumulation
  • debacle
  • defeasance
  • destroying
  • destruction
  • developing
  • development
  • dilating
  • disaster
  • discomfiture
  • dispatching
  • distending
  • distention
  • doing in
  • doubling
  • dousing
  • downthrow
  • dowsing
  • drenching
  • drubbing
  • dusting
  • eating alive
  • eclipsing
  • elaboration
  • embarrassment
  • enlargement
  • enlarging
  • escalating
  • escalation
  • evolution
  • evolvement
  • exaggeration
  • exceeding
  • excelling
  • expanding
  • expansion
  • extension
  • extermination
  • failure
  • fall
  • finishing
  • flattening
  • fleshing out
  • flight
  • flourishing
  • flowering
  • fructifying
  • gain
  • gaining
  • germinating
  • germination
  • getting
  • getting big
  • going
  • greasing
  • growing
  • growth
  • heightening
  • hiding
  • hike
  • hurdling
  • improvement
  • incorporation
  • increase
  • increasing
  • increment
  • increscent
  • inflating
  • inflation
  • insuccess
  • intensification
  • intensifying
  • jumping
  • killing
  • knocking off
  • knocking over
  • ko
  • lacing
  • licking
  • living
  • loss
  • lubricating
  • markup
  • massacre
  • mastering
  • mastery
  • maturation
  • maturing
  • maximization
  • merger
  • metamorphosing
  • modifying
  • mounting
  • multiplication
  • multiplying
  • mushrooming
  • mutating
  • nonsuccess
  • nosing out
  • oiling
  • optimization
  • outdistancing
  • outdoing
  • outfighting
  • outshining
  • outstripping
  • overbearing
  • overcoming
  • overmatching
  • overpowering
  • overthrow
  • overthrowing
  • overtopping
  • overwhelming
  • paddling
  • pasting
  • peaking
  • piling up
  • pipping
  • produce
  • production
  • progress
  • proliferating
  • proliferation
  • promotion
  • prosperity
  • pullulating
  • raise
  • rebuff
  • redoubling
  • repulse
  • retreat
  • reverse
  • rise
  • rising
  • rocketing
  • rolling up
  • romp
  • rout
  • routing
  • ruin
  • running
  • running circles around
  • running rings around
  • scalping
  • scoring
  • setback
  • shambles
  • shellacking
  • shutout
  • sinking
  • skinning
  • skunking
  • skyrocketing
  • slaughter
  • slaughtering
  • slicking
  • smoking
  • smothering
  • snowballing
  • snowing under
  • soaking
  • sousing
  • spread
  • spreading
  • sprouting
  • stacking up
  • step-up
  • stretching
  • subduing
  • subjugating
  • subjugation
  • succeeding
  • success
  • surge
  • surging
  • surmounting
  • surpassing
  • sweeping
  • swell
  • swelling
  • taking
  • thickening
  • thrashing
  • thriving
  • throwing
  • topping
  • transcending
  • transfiguring
  • transforming
  • transmuting
  • trap
  • trashing
  • trimming
  • triumph
  • tromping
  • trouncing
  • turning
  • unfolding
  • up
  • upending
  • upgrade
  • upping
  • upset
  • upsetting
  • upsurge
  • upswing
  • upturn
  • vanquishing
  • vanquishment
  • vegetation
  • viable
  • walkover
  • walloping
  • washing
  • washout
  • watering
  • wetting
  • whaling
  • whapping
  • whipping
  • whitewashing
  • whomping
  • whopping
  • whupping
  • widening
  • wiping the floor with
  • wiping the ground with
  • worsting

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