green

Plural: greens

Noun

• green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass
• a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area
• 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)
• an environmentalist who belongs to the Green Party
• a river that rises in western Wyoming and flows southward through Utah to become a tributary of the Colorado River
• an area of closely cropped grass surrounding the hole on a golf course
  • "the ball rolled across the green and into the bunker"
• any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables
• street names for ketamine
• The color of grass and leaves; a primary additive color midway between yellow and blue which is evoked by light between roughly 495–570 nm.
• A member of a green party; an environmentalist.
• A putting green, the part of a golf course near the hole.
• The surface upon which bowls is played.
• One of the color balls used in snooker, with a value of 3 points.
• A public patch of land in the middle of a settlement.
• A grassy plain; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage.
• Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths.
• Any substance or pigment of a green color.
• A green light used as a signal.
• Marijuana.
• Money.
• One of the three color charges for quarks.
• Ellipsis of green room.

Verb

Verb Forms: greened, greening, greens

• To become or cause to become green in color.
• turn or become green
  • "The trees are greening"
• To make (something) green, to turn (something) green.
• To become or grow green in color.
• To add greenspaces to (a town, etc.).
• To become environmentally aware.
• To make (something) environmentally friendly.

Adjective Satellite

• 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"
• looking pale and unhealthy
  • "you're looking green"
  • "green around the gills"
• naive and easily deceived or tricked

Adjective

• Of the color of growing foliage; inexperienced or naive.
• concerned with or supporting or in conformity with the political principles of the Green Party
• not fully developed or mature; not ripe
  • "fried green tomatoes"
  • "green wood"

Adj

• Of a green hue; with a hue which is of grass or leaves.
• Sickly, unwell.
• Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen.
• Inexperienced.
• Islamist.
• Full of life and vigour; fresh and vigorous; new; recent; young.
• Naive or unaware of obvious facts.
• Overcome with envy.
• Environmentally friendly.
• Of a green party, environmentalism-oriented.
• Describing a pitch which, even if there is no visible grass, still contains a significant amount of moisture.
• Of bacon or similar smallgoods: unprocessed, raw, unsmoked; not smoked or spiced.
• Not fully roasted; half raw.
• Of film: freshly processed by the laboratory and not yet fully physically hardened.
• Of freshly cut wood or lumber that has not been dried: containing moisture and therefore relatively more flexible or springy.
• High or too high in acidity.
• Having a sexual connotation; indecent; lewd; risqué; obscene; profane.
• Having a color charge of green.
• Being or relating to the green currencies of the European Union.
• Subject to or involving a model of open access in which a published article is only available to read for free after an embargo period.
• Of or pertaining to a part formed from compacted metal powder which has not yet undergone sintering to improve its strength.
• Having a status (as correct, ready, or safe) denoted or coded by the color green.

Examples

• a green manhood
• a green wound
• As spring approached, the player watched their garden green, much like their strategy.
• green energy
• Green New Deal
• He is wearing a green shirt.
• He was green with envy.
• John's kind of green, so take it easy on him this first week.
• Sally looks pretty green—is she going to be sick?
• That timber is still too green to be used.
• The former flag of Libya is fully green.
• the green lira
• the green pound
• Though green to the game, her beginner’s luck led to an impressive score.

Synonyms

cat valium, common, commons, dark-green, fleeceable, Green River, greenish, greenness, greens, gullible, honey oil, immature, jet, K, leafy vegetable, light-green, park, putting green, putting surface, special K, super acid, super C, unripe, unripened, viridity, William Green, British racing green, Lincoln green, MJ, Mary Jane, Mary Joanna, Paris green, Texas tea, all-new, army green, benj, bhang, boo, born yesterday, bottle green, bowling green, brand new, brand spanking new, broccoli, bud, buddha, callow, cannabis, cheeba, cherry, choof, credulous, daccha, dank, devil's lettuce, djamba, doobage, dope, eau de nil, eco-friendly, ecological, ecologically friendly, emerald, emerald green, endo, engreen, envious, environment-friendly, environmentalist, environmentally friendly, experienceless, forest green, fresh, fresh off the boat, freshly made, gage, ganj, ganja, grass, grass-green, green, greenery, greenie, greenly, greeny, hash, hashish, hemp, herb, honeydew, hot, hunter green, inexperienced, kelly green, leaf green, lime, lime green, loden, malachite, marihoochie, marijuana, method, mezz, mint, mint cream, moss green, muggle, mull, naif, naive, nascent, new, new-laid, newish, novel, pea green, pot, pristine, puff, pup, raw, red-hot, reefer, rifle green, sensimilla, sensimillia, shit, smaragdine, spring green, strange, sweetleaf, tart, tea, tree hugger, treehugger, trees, twig, unexperienced, unpracticed, unprocessed, unseasoned, unsmoked, unused, unversed, verdant, verdurous, vert, virescent, virgin, virginal, virid, viridescent, wacky tobaccy, weed, wide-eyed, yarndie, youthful, zaza, zombie

Antonyms

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

Related Words

Appendix:Colors, biliverdin, black, blue, brown, chlorophyl, chlorophyll, environmentally friendly, envy, grass, gray, greens, grey, gullible, ill, inexperienced, leaves, lime, new, orange, paloverde, pine, pink, plant, purple, red, salad days, salsa verde, secondary color, shamrock, terre verte, thallium, thallus, verdant, verdigris, verdin, verditer, verdure, verjuice, vert, violet, vireo, virescent, virid, viridescent, white, wintergreen, yellow

Anagrams of green