VEGETATING Antonyms

• having life or vigor or spirit

• made to appear to move as living creatures do

• full of energetic and noisy activity

• characterized by action or forcefulness or force of personality

• of or relating to dynamics

• (used of verbs (e.g. `to run') and participial adjectives (e.g. `running' in `running water')) expressing action rather than a state of being

• an efficient incentive

• possessing or exerting or displaying energy

• working hard to promote an enterprise

• having ones attention or mind or energy engaged

• involved in military hostilities

• reserved in advance

• (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (`engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line)

• (used of toothed parts or gears) interlocked and interacting

• having services contracted for

• built against or attached to a wall

• pledged to be married

• very lively and profitable

• full of life and energy

• full of zest or vigor

• quick and energetic

• elastic; rebounds readily

• filled with events or activity

• full of spirit; full of life

• producing or capable of producing (especially abundantly)

• having the ability to produce or originate

• yielding positive results

• marked by great fruitfulness

• very lively and profitable