green

• He is wearing a green shirt.
• The former flag of Libya is fully green.
• The day was cool and snappy for August, and the Rise all green with a lavish nature. Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold...

Synonyms: verdant vert greenish greenly greeny verdurous virescent virid viridescent

Antonyms: nongreen ungreen

• Sally looks pretty green—is she going to be sick?
• to look so green and pale - c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

Antonyms: ripe

• John's kind of green, so take it easy on him this first week.
• I might be angry[…] with the officious zeal which supposes that its green conceptions can instruct my grey hairs. - 1822, [Walter Scott], Peveril of the Peak. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […]...
• He acted like a green racehorse, plunging over his jumps, tearing to the front of the field of riders. - 2008, Richard R. Rust, Renegade Champion: The Unlikely Rise of Fitzrada, page 91:

Synonyms: callow experienceless inexperienced unexperienced fresh green new punk pup raw strange unpracticed unseasoned unseen unversed

• In its most extreme formulation, this vision has devolved into a caricature of Islam as the "Green Peril" (green is the colour of Islam) advancing across the world stage, an image that echoes both the "Red Menace" of...
• Some politicians tried to encourage this replacement of the red with a green menace. - 2006, Benjamin Soares, Muslim-Christian encounters in Africa, page 11:
• While Bill Clinton struggled during the 1990s to bring order to a chaotic world increasingly wracked by ethnic and religious conflict, critics detected signs that a new "green" threat - radical Islam - was supplanting...

• a green manhood
• a green wound
• as valid against such an old and beneficent government as against […] the greenest usurpation - 1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London...

Synonyms: new all-new brand new brand spanking new cherry fresh freshly made green hot mint nascent newish new-laid novel pristine red-hot unused verdurous virgin virginal youthful

Synonyms: gullible credulous green naive fleeceable naif born yesterday fresh off the boat wide-eyed

• He was green with envy.

Synonyms: envious

• green energy
• Green New Deal
• As towns continue to grow, replanting vegetation has become a form of urban utopia and green roofs are spreading fast. Last year 1m square metres of plant-covered roofing was built in France, as much as in the US, and...

Synonyms: eco-friendly environmentally friendly environment-friendly ecological ecologically friendly green

Synonyms: raw unprocessed unsmoked

Antonyms: processed smoked spiced

Coordinate Terms: yellow red

• In a period of increasing industrialization and the palette of grey, brown, and black that came to dominate the modern city, greens provided a refreshing contrast, seemingly bringing the outdoors in. - 2015, Alison...
• Red No. 3, red No. 40, blue No. 2 and green No. 3 all have been linked with cancer or tumors in animals. Other sources say red No. 40 and yellow No. 5 and No. 6 contain or may be contaminated with known carcinogens. -...

Synonyms: emerald lime

• How have greens sought to map an ecologically and socially sustainable future for society? - 2013, Joe Smith, What Do Greens Believe?, →ISBN, page 62:

Synonyms: environmentalist greenie tree hugger treehugger

• I gave him my putter earlier this year in Oklahoma City. He was having trouble on the greens and I said, ‘Here, try this.’ He did, and he’s been going great guns ever since. - 1964 June 16, Arnold Palmer, quotee, “All...
• There are eighteen holes but I dare any visitor to find more than, say, twelve fairways and seven or eight greens. - 2010, Dan Jenkins, Fairways and Greens, →ISBN, page 233:

Synonyms: bowling green

• o'er the smooth enamelled green - 1634, John Milton, “Arcades”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC:

• In that ſoft Seaſon vvhen deſcending Shovvers / Call forth the Greens, and vvake the riſing Flovvers; […] - 1715, [Alexander] Pope, The Temple of Fame: A Vision, London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, page 7:

• To the casual cockpit observer, landing-gear operation appears to be one of the most elementary tasks we have to perform. Either the switch is up and the lights are out, or it's down and there are three greens. - 1992,...

• You're better off smoking the green instead cause it don't blim-burn and it's better for your head. - 2003, “Soap Bar”, in The Manifesto, performed by Goldie Looking Chain:
• They see me, hoes actin like they seen a king / With that mean lean, smokin on that finest Cali green - 2005, “Drive Slow”, in Late Registration, performed by Kanye West:

Synonyms: bhang benj boo broccoli bud buddha cannabis cheeba choof daccha dank devil's lettuce djamba doja doobage dope endo gage ganja ganj grass green greenery hash

• Great spring before greened all the year. - a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Spring”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:
• Out of that tub had come the day before—Tess felt it with a dreadful sting of remorse - the very white frock upon her back which she had so carelessly greened about the skirt on the damping grass - which had been wrung...

• O rosetree planted in my grief, / And growing, on her tomb, / Her dust is greening in your leaf, / Her blood is in your bloom. - 1885, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Ancient Sage”, in Tiresias and Other Poems, London:...
• by greening slope and singing flood - 1886, John Greenleaf Whittier, Flowers in Winter:

• The newer 39-story, 1.5-million-square-foot tower occupies much of the original Shearson Garden, a larger parklet that briefly greened the construction site to be, and is remembered fondly by nearby Tribecans. - 2000,...

• "The SNP like to talk the talk about net zero targets, but they can't walk the walk. We need a fares freeze for everyone if we want to get serious about greening the economy and a public railway run in the public...