green

Definition of green

Adjectives

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"

Synonyms:: dark-green, greenish, light-green; chromatic
being or having or characterized by hue

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"

Synonyms:: immature, unripe, unripened; unaged
not subjected to an aging process

Antonyms:: ripe
fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used; mature; aged, ripened
of wines, fruit, cheeses; having reached a desired or final condition; (`aged' pronounced as one syllable); mellow, mellowed
having a full and pleasing flavor through proper aging; overripe
too ripe and beginning to turn soft; show more antonyms...

looking pale and unhealthy

"you're looking green"

"green around the gills"

Synonyms:: ill, sick
affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function

naive and easily deceived or tricked

Synonyms:: fleeceable, gullible; naif, naive
marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience

Nouns

green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass

Synonyms:: greenness, viridity

Types:: show 11 types...; hide 11 types...; greenishness
the property of being somewhat green; sea green
the property of a moderate green color resembling the waters of the sea; sage green
the color of sage leaves; bottle green
dark to moderate or greyish green; chrome green
a brilliant green color; emerald
the green color of an emerald; olive green, olive-green
a color that is lighter and greener than olive; Paris green, chartreuse, pea green, yellow green, yellowish green
a shade of green tinged with yellow; blue green, bluish green, teal
a blue-green color or pigment; cyan
a primary subtractive color for light; has a blue-green color; jade, jade green
a light green color varying from bluish green to yellowish green

Type of:: chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour
a color that has hue

a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area

Synonyms:: common, commons, park

Examples:: Central Park
a large park in Manhattan; Disneyland
an amusement park in Anaheim created in 1955 by Walt Disney; Walt Disney World
a large amusement park established in 1971 to the southwest of Orlando

Types:: amusement park, funfair, pleasure ground
a commercially operated park with stalls and shows for amusement; theme park
an amusement park that is organized around some theme (as the world of tomorrow); village green
a village park consisting of a plot of grassy land

Type of:: parcel, parcel of land, piece of ground, piece of land, tract
an extended area of land

an area of closely cropped grass surrounding the hole on a golf course

"the ball rolled across the green and into the bunker"

Synonyms:: putting green, putting surface

Type of:: land site, site
the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located)

any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables

Synonyms:: greens, leafy vegetable

Types:: show 20 types...; hide 20 types...; chop-suey greens
succulent and aromatic young dark green leaves used in Chinese and Vietnamese and Japanese cooking; sprout
a newly grown bud (especially from a germinating seed); bean sprout
any of various sprouted beans: especially mung beans or lentils or edible soybeans; alfalfa sprout
sprouted alfalfa seeds; beet green
young leaves of the beetroot; Swiss chard, chard, leaf beet, spinach beet
long succulent whitish stalks with large green leaves; salad green, salad greens
greens suitable for eating uncooked as in salads; lettuce
leaves of any of various plants of Lactuca sativa; celtuce
leaves having celery-like stems eaten raw or cooked; chicory, curly endive
crisp spiky leaves with somewhat bitter taste; chicory escarole, endive, escarole
variety of endive having leaves with irregular frilled edges; cress
pungent leaves of any of numerous cruciferous herbs; salad burnet
leaves sometimes used for salad; dandelion green
edible leaves of the common dandelion collected from the wild; used in salads and in making wine; lamb's-quarter, pigweed, wild spinach
leaves collected from the wild; wild spinach
leafy greens collected from the wild and used as a substitute for spinach; turnip greens
tender leaves of young white turnips; common sorrel, sorrel
large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces; French sorrel
greens having small tart oval to pointed leaves; preferred to common sorrel for salads; spinach
dark green leaves; eaten cooked or raw in salads

Type of:: veg, vegetable, veggie
edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant

street names for ketamine

Synonyms:: K, cat valium, honey oil, jet, special K, super C, super acid

Type of:: Ketalar, ketamine, ketamine hydrochloride
a general anesthetic and tranquilizer (not a barbiturate) that is administered intravenously or intramuscularly; used mainly by veterinarians or for minor surgery with geriatric or pediatric patients; taken in large doses it causes hallucinations similar to those associated with the use of PCP

Verbs

turn or become green

"The trees are greening"

Type of:: color, colour, discolor, discolour
change color, often in an undesired manner

Vocabulary Lists for green

aalii
abatis
abstraction
aby
acacia

Abenaki
absorbing
acetamide
acetate
acetic

aluminum
babe
behold
bicycle
bubble gum

Saint Patrick
St. Patrick
public holiday
parade
Republic of Ireland

anomaly
equivocal
lucid
precipitate
abstain

scarecrow
woodman
tip
bug
emerald

piglet
wizard
Eureka
sawhorse
gargoyle

falsehood
dissemble
profligate
abate
abdicate

Other Spellings