green

Meaning of green

adjective
  1. Having green as its color.
    The former flag of Libya is fully green.
  2. (of people) Sickly, unwell.
    Sally looks pretty green — is she going to be sick?
  3. Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen.
  4. (of people) Inexperienced.
    John's kind of green, so take it easy on him this first week.
  5. (of people) Naive or unaware of obvious facts.
  6. (of people) Overcome with envy.
    He was green with envy.
  7. Environmentally friendly.
  8. Describing a pitch which, even if there is no visible grass, still contains a significant amount of moisture.
  9. Of bacon or similar smallgoods: unprocessed, raw, unsmoked; not smoked or spiced.
  10. Not fully roasted; half raw.
  11. Of freshly cut wood or lumber that has not been dried: containing moisture and therefore relatively more flexible or springy.
    That timber is still too green to be used.
  12. High or too high in acidity.
  13. Full of life and vigour; fresh and vigorous; new; recent.
    a green manhood;   a green wound
  14. Having a sexual connotation.
  15. Having a color charge of green.
  16. Being or relating to the green currencies of the European Union.
    the green pound; the green lira
noun
  1. The colour of growing foliage, as well as other plant cells containing chlorophyll; the colour between yellow and blue in the visible spectrum; one of the primary additive colour for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and blue from white light using cyan and yellow filters.
  2. (sometimes capitalised) A member of a green party; an environmentalist.
  3. A putting green, the part of a golf course near the hole.
  4. (bowls) The surface upon which bowls is played.
  5. One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 3 points.
  6. A public patch of land in the middle of a settlement.
  7. A grassy plain; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage.
  8. (chiefly in plural) Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths.
  9. Any substance or pigment of a green colour.
  10. Marijuana.
  11. Money.
  12. One of the three color charges for quarks.
verb
  1. To make (something) green, to turn (something) green.
  2. To become or grow green in colour.
  3. To add greenspaces to (a town, etc.).
  4. To become environmentally aware.
  5. To make (something) environmentally friendly.

Information about green

Hyphenation of green

green

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • green is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

green synonyms

Meaning greenish:

greenish

Meaning party:

party

Meaning unripe:

unripe, unripened, immature

Meaning fleeceable:

fleeceable, gullible

Meaning greenness:

greenness, viridity

Meaning park:

park, commons, common

Meaning Green:

Green

Meaning greens:

greens

Meaning K:

K, jet

Meaning :

verdant, raw, unprocessed, unsmoked, tart, environmentalist, greenie, veg, engreen

green antonyms

Meaning :

nongreen, ungreen, processed, smoked, spiced, ripe, cloy, sweet

Translation of green

Anagrams of green

genre, gerne, neger, Regen, reneg

Words that rhyme with green

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