1. green(n = noun.attribute) greenness, viridity - green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass; Array
is a kind of chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour
has particulars: greenishness, sea green, sage green, bottle green, chrome green, emerald, olive-green, olive green, chartreuse, paris green, pea green, yellow green, yellowish green, blue green, bluish green, teal, jade, jade green
Derived forms verb green1, adjective green1
2. green(n = noun.location) common, commons, park - a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area; "they went for a walk in the park"
is a kind of parcel, parcel of land, piece of ground, piece of land, tract
is a part of populated area, urban area
has particulars: amusement park, funfair, pleasure ground, village green, central park
3. green(n = noun.person) william green - United States labor leader who was president of the American Federation of Labor from 1924 to 1952 and who led the struggle with the Congress of Industrial Organizations (1873-1952); Array
is a kind of labor leader
4. green(n = noun.person) Array - an environmentalist who belongs to the Green Party; Array
is a kind of conservationist, environmentalist
is a member of green party
Derived form adjective green2
5. green(n = noun.object) green river - a river that rises in western Wyoming and flows southward through Utah to become a tributary of the Colorado River; Array
is a kind of river
is a part of beehive state, mormon state, ut, utah, equality state, wy, wyoming
6. green(n = noun.location) putting green, putting surface - an area of closely cropped grass surrounding the hole on a golf course; "the ball rolled across the green and into the bunker"
is a kind of land site, site
is a part of golf course, links course
7. green(n = noun.food) greens, leafy vegetable - any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables; Array
is a kind of veg, vegetable, veggie
has particulars: chop-suey greens, sprout, beet green, chard, leaf beet, spinach beet, swiss chard, salad green, salad greens, dandelion green, lamb's-quarter, pigweed, wild spinach, wild spinach, turnip greens, common sorrel, sorrel, french sorrel, spinach
8. green(n = noun.artifact) cat valium, honey oil, jet, k, special k, super acid, super c - street names for ketamine; Array
is a kind of ketalar, ketamine, ketamine hydrochloride
1. green(s = adj.all) dark-green, greenish, light-green - of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass; "a green tree"; "green fields"; "green paint"
Derived forms noun green1, noun greenness3
2. green(a = adj.pert) Array - concerned with or supporting or in conformity with the political principles of the Green Party; Array
Derived form noun green4
3. green(a = adj.all) immature, unripe, unripened - not fully developed or mature; not ripe; "unripe fruit"; "fried green tomatoes"; "green wood"
Antonym: ripe
Derived form noun greenness2
4. green(s = adj.all) Array - looking pale and unhealthy; "you're looking green"; "green around the gills"
5. green(s = adj.all) fleeceable, gullible - naive and easily deceived or tricked; "at that early age she had been gullible and in love"
green(v = verb.change) Array - turn or become green; "The trees are greening"
is one way to color, colour, discolor, discolour
Derived forms noun green1, noun greenery1, noun greening1
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
1. Having the color of grass when fresh and growing; resembling that color of the solar spectrum which is between the yellow and the blue; verdant; emerald. [1913 Webster]
2. Having a sickly color; wan. [1913 Webster]
"To look so green and pale." [1913 Webster]
3. Full of life and vigor; fresh and vigorous; new; recent; as, a green manhood; a green wound. [1913 Webster]
"As valid against such an old and beneficent government as against . . . the greenest usurpation." [1913 Webster]
4. Not ripe; immature; not fully grown or ripened; as, green fruit, corn, vegetables, etc. [1913 Webster]
5. Not roasted; half raw. [1913 Webster]
"We say the meat is green when half roasted." [1913 Webster]
6. Immature in age, judgment, or experience; inexperienced; young; raw; not trained; awkward; as, green in years or judgment. [1913 Webster]
"I might be angry with the officious zeal which supposes that its green conceptions can instruct my gray hairs." [1913 Webster]
7. Not seasoned; not dry; containing its natural juices; as, green wood, timber, etc. Shak. [1913 Webster]
8. Concerned especially with protection of the enviroment; -- of political parties and political philosophies; as, the European green parties. [PJC]
1. The color of growing plants; the color of the solar spectrum intermediate between the yellow and the blue. [1913 Webster]
2. A grassy plain or plat; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage; as, the village green. [1913 Webster]
"O'er the smooth enameled green." [1913 Webster]
3. Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths; -- usually in the plural. [1913 Webster]
"In that soft season when descending showers
Call forth the greens, and wake the rising flowers." [1913 Webster]
4. Leaves and stems of young plants, as spinach, beets, etc., which in their green state are boiled for food. [1913 Webster]
5. Any substance or pigment of a green color. [1913 Webster]
To make green. [1913 Webster]
"Great spring before
Greened all the year."
To become or grow green. Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
"By greening slope and singing flood." [1913 Webster]
green, adj., n., & v.
--adj.
1 of the colour between blue and yellow in the spectrum; coloured like grass, emeralds, etc.
2 a covered with leaves or grass. b mild and without snow (a green Christmas).
3 (of fruit etc. or wood) unripe or unseasoned.
4 not dried, smoked, or tanned.
5 inexperienced, na{iuml}ve, gullible.
6 a (of the complexion) pale, sickly-hued. b jealous, envious.
7 young, flourishing.
8 not withered or worn out (a green old age).
9 vegetable (green food; green salad).
10 (also Green) concerned with or supporting protection of the environment as a political principle.
11 archaic fresh; not healed (a green wound).
--n.
1 a green colour or pigment.
2 green clothes or material (dressed in green).
3 a a piece of public or common grassy land (village green). b a grassy area used for a special purpose (putting-green; bowling-green). c Golf a putting-green. d Golf a fairway.
4 (in pl.) green vegetables.
5 vigour, youth, virility (in the green).
6 a green light.
7 a green ball, piece, etc., in a game or sport.
8 (also Green) a member or supporter of an environmentalist group or party.
9 (in pl.) sl. sexual intercourse.
10 sl. low-grade marijuana.
11 sl. money.
12 green foliage or growing plants.
--v.
1 tr. & intr. make or become green.
2 tr. sl. hoax; take in.
Idiom:
green belt an area of open land round a city, designated for preservation. Green Beret colloq. a British or American commando. green card an international insurance document for motorists. green cheese
1 cheese coloured green with sage.
2 whey cheese.
3 unripened cheese. Green Cloth (in full Board of Green Cloth) (in the UK) the Lord Steward's department of the Royal Household. green crop a crop used as fodder in a green state rather than as hay etc. green drake the common mayfly. green earth a hydrous silicate of potassium, iron, and other metals. green-eyed jealous. the green-eyed monster jealousy. green fat part of a turtle, highly regarded by gourmets. green-fee Golf a charge for playing one round on a course. green fingers skill in growing plants. green goose a goose killed under four months old and eaten without stuffing. green in a person's eye a sign of gullibility (do you see any green in my eye?). green leek any of several green-faced Australian parakeets. green light 1 a signal to proceed on a road, railway, etc.
2 colloq. permission to go ahead with a project. green linnet = GREENFINCH. green manure growing plants ploughed into the soil as fertilizer. green meat grass and green vegetables as food. Green Paper (in the UK) a preliminary report of Government proposals, for discussion. green plover a lapwing. green pound the exchange rate for the pound for payments for agricultural produce in the EEC. green revolution greatly increased crop production in underdeveloped countries. green-room a room in a theatre for actors and actresses who are off stage. green-stick fracture a bone-fracture, esp. in children, in which one side of the bone is broken and one only bent. green tea tea made from steam-dried, not fermented, leaves. green thumb = green fingers. green turtle a green-shelled sea turtle, Chelonia mydas, highly regarded as food. green vitriol ferrous sulphate crystals.
Derivative:
greenish adj. greenly adv. greenness n.
Etymology:
OE grene (adj. & n.), grenian (v.), f. Gmc, rel. to GROW
N desuetude, disusage, obsolescence, disuse, want of habit, want of practice, inusitation, newness to, new brooms, infraction of usage, nonprevalence, a custom more honored in the breach than the obser, unaccustomed, unused, unwonted, unseasoned, uninured, unhabituated, untrained, new, green, unhackneyed, unusual, nonobservant, disused.
N health, sanity, soundness, vigor, good health, perfect health, excellent health, rude health, robust health, bloom, mens sana in corpore sano, Hygeia, incorruption, incorruptibility, good state of health, clean bill of health, eupepsia, euphoria, euphory, St. Anthony's fire, healthy, healthful, in health, well, sound, hearty, hale, fresh, green, whole, florid, flush, hardy, stanch, staunch, brave, robust, vigorous, weatherproof, unscathed, uninjured, unmaimed, unmarred, untainted, sound of wind and limb, safe and sound, on one's legs, sound as a roach, sound as a bell, fresh as a daisy, fresh as a rose, fresh as April, hearty as a buck, in fine feather, in high feather, in good case, in full bloom, pretty bobbish, tolerably well, as well as can be expected, sanitary sanatory, health that snuffs the morning air, non est vivere sed valere vita.
N nonpreparation, non-preparation, absence of preparation, want of preparation, inculture, inconcoction, improvidence, immaturity, crudity, rawness, abortion, disqualification, nature, state of nature, virgin soil, unweeded garden, neglect, rough copy, germ, raw material, improvisation, unprepared (prepare), without preparation, incomplete, rudimental, embryonic, abortive, immature, unripe, kachcha, raw, green, crude, coarse, rough cast, rough hewn, in the rough, unhewn, unformed, unfashioned, unwrought, unlabored, unblown, uncooked, unboiled, unconcocted, unpolished, unhatched, unfledged, unnurtured, unlicked, untaught, uneducated, uncultivated, untrained, untutored, undrilled, unexercised, deckle- edged, precocious, premature, undigested, indigested, unmellowed, unseasoned, unleavened, unrehearsed, unscripted, extemporaneous, improvised, spontaneous, ad lib, ad libitem, fallow, unsown, untilled, natural, in a state of nature, undressed, in dishabille, en deshabille, unqualified, disqualified, unfitted, ill-digested, unbegun, unready, unarranged, unorganized, unfurnished, unprovided, unequipped, untrimmed, out of gear, out of order, dismantled, shiftless, improvident, unthrifty, thriftless, thoughtless, unguarded, happy-go- lucky, caught napping, unpremeditated, extempore.
N unskillfulness, want of skill, incompetence, incompentency, inability, infelicity, indexterity, inexperience, disqualification, unproficiency, quackery, folly, stupidity indiscretion, thoughtlessness, sabotage, mismanagement, misconduct, impolicy, maladministration, misrule, misgovernment, misapplication, misdirection, misfeasance, petticoat government, absence of rule, rule of thumb, bungling, failure, screw loose: too many cooks, blunder, etourderie gaucherie, act of folly, balourdise, botch, botchery, bad job, sad work, sprat sent out to catch a whale, much ado about nothing, wild- goose chase, bungler, fool, unskillful, inexpert, bungling, awkward, clumsy, unhandy, lubberly, gauche, maladroit, left-handed, heavy-handed, slovenly, slatternly, gawky, adrift, at fault, inapt, unapt, inhabile, untractable, unteachable, giddy, inconsiderate, stupid inactive, incompetent, unqualified, disqualified, ill-qualified, unfit, quackish, raw, green, inexperienced, rusty, out of practice, unaccustomed, unused, untrained &c, uninitiated, unconversant, shiftless, unstatesmanlike, unadvised, ill-advised, misadvised, ill-devised, ill-imagined, ill-judged, ill-contrived, ill-conducted, unguided, misguided, misconducted, foolish, wild, infelicitous, penny wise and pound foolish, one's fingers being all thumbs, the right hand forgets its cunning, il se noyerait dans une goutte d'eau, incidit in Scyllam qui vult vitare Charybdim, out of the frying pan into the fire, non omnia possumus omnes.
N newness, novelty, recency, immaturity, youth, gloss of novelty, innovation, renovation, modernism, mushroom, parvenu, latest fashion, new, novel, recent, fresh, green, young, evergreen, raw, immature, unsettled, yeasty, virgin, untried, unhandseled, untrodden, untrod, unbeaten, fire-new, span-new, late, modern, neoteric, hypermodern, nouveau, new-born, nascent, neonatal, new-fashioned, new-fangled, new-fledged, of yesterday, just out, brand-new, up to date, up to the minute, with it, fashionable, in fashion, in, hip, vernal, renovated, sempervirent, sempervirid, fresh as a rose, fresh as a daisy, fresh as paint, spick and span, newly, afresh, anew, lately, just now, only yesterday, the other day, latterly, of late, not long ago, a short time ago, di novello tutto par bello, nullum est jam dictum quod non dictum est prius, una scopa nuova spazza bene.
N youth, juvenility, juvenescence, juniority, infancy, babyhood, childhood, boyhood, girlhood, youthhood, incunabula, minority, nonage, teens, tender age, bloom, cradle, nursery, leading strings, pupilage, puberty, pucelage, prime of life, flower of life, springtide of life, seedtime of life, golden season of life, heyday of youth, school days, rising generation, young, youthful, juvenile, green, callow, budding, sappy, puisne, beardless, under age, in one's teens, in statu pupillari, younger, junior, hebetic, unfledged, youth on the prow and pleasure at the helm, youth a the glad season of life.
N plain, table-land, face of the country, open country, champaign country, basin, downs, waste, weary waste, desert, wild, steppe, pampas, savanna, prairie, heath, common, wold, veldt, moor, moorland, bush, plateau, campagna, alkali flat, llano, mesa, mesilla, playa, shaking prairie, trembling prairie, vega, meadow, mead, haugh, pasturage, park, field, lawn, green, plat, plot, grassplat, greensward, sward, turf, sod, heather, lea, ley, lay, grounds, maidan, agostadero, champaign, alluvial, campestral, campestrial, campestrian, campestrine.
N greenness, green, blue and yellow, vert, emerald, verd antique, verdigris, malachite, beryl, aquamarine, absinthe, cr=eme de menthe, terre verte, verditer, verdine, copperas, greenness, verdure, viridity, viridescence, verditure, glaucoma, rokunaisho, green, verdant, glaucous, olive, olive green, green as grass, verdurous, emerald green, pea green, grass green, apple green, sea green, olive green, bottle green, coke bottle green, greenish, virent, virescent, green (learner), new, inexperienced, novice, (unskillful), green (ill, sick), green with envy, the green grass of Ireland, the wearing of the green, greenness, green, blue and yellow, vert, emerald, verd antique, verdigris, malachite, beryl, aquamarine, absinthe, cr=eme de menthe, terre verte, verditer, verdine, copperas, greenness, verdure, viridity, viridescence, verditure, glaucoma, rokunaisho, green, verdant, glaucous, olive, olive green, green as grass, verdurous, emerald green, pea green, grass green, apple green, sea green, olive green, bottle green, coke bottle green, greenish, virent, virescent, green (learner), new, inexperienced, novice, (unskillful), green (ill, sick), green with envy, the green grass of Ireland, the wearing of the green.
N credulity, credulousness, cullibility, gullibility, gross credulity, infatuation, self delusion, self deception, superstition, one's blind side, bigotry, hyperorthodoxy, misjudgment, credulous person, credulous, gullible, easily deceived, simple, green, soft, childish, silly, stupid, easily convinced, over-credulous, over confident, over trustful, infatuated, superstitious, confiding, the wish the father to the thought, credo quia impossibile, all is not gold that glitters, no es oro todo lo que reluce, omne ignotum pro magnifico.
N ignorance, nescience, tabula rasa, crass ignorance, ignorance crasse, unfamiliarity, unacquaintance, unconsciousness, darkness, blindness, incomprehension, inexperience, simplicity, unknown quantities, x, y, z, sealed book, terra incognita, virgin soil, unexplored ground, dark ages, smattering, sciolism, glimmering, dilettantism, bewilderment, incapacity, pedantry, charlatanry, charlatism, Philister, Philistine, ignorant, nescient, unknowing, unaware, unacquainted, unapprised, unapprized, unwitting, unweeting, unconscious, witless, weetless, a stranger to, unconversant, uninformed, uncultivated, unversed, uninstructed, untaught, uninitiated, untutored, unschooled, misguided, unenlightened, Philistine, behind the age, shallow, superficial, green, rude, empty, half-learned, illiterate, unread, uninformed, uneducated, unlearned, unlettered, unbookish, empty-headed, dizzy, wooly-headed, pedantic, in the dark, benighted, belated, blinded, blindfolded, hoodwinked, misinformed, au bout de son latin, at the end of his tether, at fault, at sea, caught tripping, unknown, unapprehended, unexplained, unascertained, uninvestigated, unexplored, unheard of, not perceived, concealed, novel, ignorantly, unawares, for anything, for aught one knows, not that one knows, Int, God knows, Heaven knows, the Lord knows, who knows, nobody knows, ignorance never settles a question, quantum animis erroris inest!, small Latin and less Greek, that unlettered small-knowing soul, there is no darkness but ignorance.
N memory, remembrance, retention, retentiveness, tenacity, veteris vestigia flammae, tablets of the memory, readiness, reminiscence, recognition, recollection, rememoration, recurrence, flashback, retrospect, retrospection, afterthought, post script, PS, suggestion, prompting, hint, reminder, remembrancer, flapper, memorial, commemoration, note, memo, memorandum, things to be remembered, token of remembrance, memento, souvenir, keepsake, relic, memorabilia, art of memory, artificial memory, memoria technica, mnemonics, mnemotechnics, phrenotypics, Mnemosyne, prompt-book, crib sheet, cheat sheet, retentive memory, tenacious memory, photographic memory, green memory, trustworthy memory, capacious memory, faithful memory, correct memory, exact memory, ready memory, prompt memory, accurate recollection, perfect memory, total recall, celebrity, fame, renown, reputation, remembering, remembered, mindful, reminiscential, retained in the memory, pent up in one's memory, fresh, green, green in remembrance, unforgotten, present to the mind, within one's memory, indelible, uppermost in one's thoughts, memorable, by heart, by rote, without book, memoriter, in memory of, in memoriam, memoria in aeterna, suggestive, manet alta mente repostum, forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit, absens haeres non erit, beatae memoriae, briefly thyself remember, mendacem memorem esse oportet, memory the warder of the brain, parsque est meminisse doloris, to live in hearts we leave behind is not to die, vox audita peril littera scripta manet, out of sight, out of mind.
african green monkey, american green toad, beet green, blue green, bluish green, bottle green, bowling green, brunswick green, christmas green, chrome green, cress green, dandelion green, eurasian green toad, green adder's mouth, green alder, green algae, green apple aphid, green arrow arum, green ash, green bay, green bean, green beret, green bristlegrass, green broom, green card, green corn, green dinosaur, green douglas fir, green dragon, green fingers, green foxtail, green fringed orchis, green frog, green gentian, green gland, green goddess, green gold, green goods, green gram, green groceries, green hellebore, green june beetle, green lacewing, green lead ore, green light, green line, green lizard, green mamba, green manure, green market, green mayonnaise, green monkey, green monkey disease, green mountain state, green mountains, green mushroom pimple, green olive, green onion, green paper, green party, green pea, green pea soup, green peach aphid, green peafowl, green pepper, green plover, green revolution, green river, green salad, green smut, green smut fungus, green snake, green soap, green soybean, green spleenwort, green tea, green thumb, green turtle, green turtle soup, green woodpecker, hooker's green, jade green, kendal green, lincoln green, mexican green, mittler's green, moss green, olive green, paris green, pea green, pistachio green, putting green, rough green snake, sage green, salad green, scheele's green, sea green, smooth green snake, village green, william green, windsor green, yellow green, yellowish green