green

Meanings

Adjective

• Having green as its color.
• Sickly, unwell.
• Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen.
• Inexperienced.
• Naive or unaware of obvious facts.
• Overcome with envy.
• Environmentally friendly.
• 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.
• Full of life and vigour; fresh and vigorous; new; recent.
• Having a sexual connotation.
• Having a color charge of green.
• Being or relating to the green currencies of the European Union.

Noun

• 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.
• 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 colour 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 colour.
• A green light used as a signal.
• Marijuana.
• Money.
• One of the three color charges for quarks.

Verb

• To make (something) green, to turn (something) green.
• To become or grow green in colour.
• To add greenspaces to (a town, etc.).
• To become environmentally aware.
• To make (something) environmentally friendly.

Related

Similar words

• engreen

Opposite words

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

Origin

• From Middle English grene, from Old English grēne, from Proto-West Germanic *grōnī, from Proto-Germanic *grōniz (compare North Frisian green, West Frisian grien, Dutch groen, Low German grön, green, greun, German grün, Danish and Norwegian Nynorsk grøn, Swedish grön, Norwegian Bokmål grønn, {{cog|is|grænn
• ), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- ("to grow"). More at grow.
• From Middle English grene, from the adjective (see above).
• From Middle English grenen, from Old English grēnian, from Proto-Germanic *grōnijōną, *grōnijaną, from the adjective (see above). Cognate with Saterland Frisian gräinje, German Low German grönen, German grünen, Swedish gröna, Icelandic gróna.