Green

Adjective

 * 1) Having green as its color.
 * The flag of Libya is completely green.
 * 1) Sickly, unwell.
 * Sally looks pretty green &mdash; is she going to be sick?
 * 1) Inexperienced.
 * John's kind of green, so take it easy on him this first week.
 * 1) Environmentally friendly.
 * Let's buy green copier paper for the office
 * 1)  Overcome with envy.
 * green with envy
 * 1)  Describing a pitch which, even if there is no visible grass, still contains a significant amount of moisture
 * 2)  Of bacon or similar smallgoods, unprocessed, raw, unsmoked; not smoked or spiced.
 * 3) Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen.
 * 4)  Of wine, high or too high in acidity.
 * 5) Of freshly cut wood or lumber that has not been dried, containing moisture and therefore relatively more flexible or springy.
 * 6)  naïve or unaware of obvious facts.

Synonyms

 * raw, unprocessed, unsmoked
 * tart
 * See also Thesaurus:new
 * See also Thesaurus:inexperienced

Antonyms

 * processed, smoked, spiced
 * cloy, sweet

Derived terms

 * blue-green
 * Blue-Green alliance
 * Board of Green Cloth
 * common green lacewing
 * engreen
 * evergreen
 * go green
 * the grass is always greener on the other side
 * greater green leafbird
 * great green macaw
 * green accounting
 * green acres
 * greenage
 * green alga
 * green and pale, green and wan
 * green apron
 * green about the gills, green around the gills
 * green arrow
 * green ash
 * green audit
 * greenback
 * green-backed firecrown
 * green bag, green-bag
 * green baize
 * green ban
 * green bass
 * Green Bay
 * green bean
 * Greenbelt
 * green belt, greenbelt
 * Green Beret
 * green bice
 * green-bind
 * green bird
 * green-black
 * green blights
 * green-blue
 * green-bone, greenbone
 * green-bottle, greenbottle, greenbottle fly
 * green-book
 * green box
 * green brass
 * green brier, greenbrier
 * green broom
 * green bug
 * green burial
 * green butter
 * green card
 * green-charge
 * green cheese
 * green Christmas
 * green cloth, greencloth
 * green coat, green-coat
 * green-cod
 * green coffer
 * green con
 * green copperas
 * green cormorant
 * green corn
 * green crab
 * green crop
 * green cross
 * Green Cross Code
 * green curtain
 * green diallage
 * green dolphin
 * green dragon
 * green drake


 * green drops
 * green earth
 * green ebony
 * greened
 * green eel
 * green endive
 * green energy
 * greener
 * Green Erin
 * greenery
 * greenery-yallery
 * green-eyed
 * green fallow
 * green fat
 * greenfeed
 * green fever
 * green field, greenfield, green fields
 * green fillet
 * greenfinch


 * green fingers
 * green-finned
 * green fire
 * green-fish
 * greenflag
 * green flash
 * green fluorescent protein
 * green-fly, greenfly
 * green frog
 * green fund
 * greengage
 * green gate
 * green gill
 * green-gill, green-gilled
 * green ginger
 * green gland
 * green glass
 * Green Goddess
 * green gold
 * green-gold
 * green-golden
 * green goods
 * green goose
 * green gown
 * green grasshopper
 * green-gray, green-grey


 * green grosbeak
 * green hand, greenhand
 * green hastings
 * green head, greenhead
 * greenheart
 * green heron
 * greenhew
 * green hide, green-hide, greenhide
 * greenhorn


 * greenie
 * green in earth
 * greening
 * green investing
 * green iodide of mercury
 * green iron ore
 * greenish
 * the Green Island, the Green Isle
 * Green Jackets
 * green jaundice
 * green-jerkin
 * green jersey
 * greenkin
 * green label
 * green labeling, green labelling
 * Greenland


 * green laver
 * green lead ore
 * green leaf lettuce
 * green leech
 * green leek, green-leek, greek-leek parrot
 * greenlet
 * green light
 * Green Line
 * greenling
 * green linnet
 * Green Linnets
 * green lizard
 * green looper
 * green-louse
 * greenly
 * green mamba
 * green man
 * greenman
 * greenmans
 * green manure
 * green marble
 * greenmarket
 * green mineral
 * green monkey
 * Green Mountains
 * Green Mountain State
 * green mustard
 * greenness
 * green oak
 * green old age
 * green onion
 * green out
 * green oyster
 * green paper
 * Green Party
 * green party
 * Greenpeace
 * green-peak, green-peek
 * green pea
 * green pepper
 * green peril
 * green pigeon
 * green-plot
 * green plover
 * green-pollack
 * green pound
 * green racer
 * green ray
 * green revolution
 * green ribbon
 * Green River
 * Green River Ordinance
 * green road
 * green rod
 * green room, green-room, greenroom
 * green rose
 * green rushes
 * green salad
 * green salt of Magnus
 * green-salted
 * green sand
 * green-sand, greensand
 * green sauce, greensauce
 * green sea
 * green-seal
 * green seaweed
 * greenshank
 * green-shaving
 * greenship
 * greenship


 * greenshoe option
 * green sickness, green-sickness, greensickness
 * green-side
 * green-sleeves
 * Greensleeves
 * green slip
 * green sloke
 * green snake
 * green snow
 * green soap
 * greensome
 * green-soil
 * green space
 * greenspeak
 * green-staff
 * greenstick fracture
 * green stocks
 * green-stone, greenstone
 * greenstrip
 * Green Striper
 * green-stuff, greenstuff
 * green swallow
 * greensward
 * green syrup
 * green table
 * green-tail
 * greentailing
 * green tar
 * green tea
 * greenth
 * green thumb
 * green top
 * green-tree ant
 * green turtle
 * green 'un
 * green vitriol
 * greenware
 * green water
 * greenwash
 * greenwashing
 * green wax, greenwax
 * green way, greenway
 * greenweed
 * green-wellie
 * green-wing
 * green-winged
 * green withe
 * green with envy
 * greenwood
 * green woodpecker
 * green-wort
 * greeny
 * green-yard, greenyard
 * green-yellow
 * in green
 * in the green tree
 * keep the bones green
 * lesser green leafbird
 * little green man
 * not as green as one is cabbage-looking
 * red-and-green macaw
 * sengreen
 * silgreen, sillgreen
 * something green in one's eye
 * still-green
 * ungreen
 * verigreen
 * yellow-green

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)  A member of a green party; an environmentalist.
 * 3)  A putting green, the part of a golf course near the hole.
 * 4)  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)  marijuana.
 * 8) 🇺🇸 Money.
 * 1) 🇺🇸 Money.

Synonyms

 * environmentalist, greenbody greenie treehugger
 * veg
 * putting green
 * bowling green

Derived terms

 * advanced green
 * almond green, almond-green
 * apple green, apple-green
 * ay-green
 * Berlin green
 * Bermuda green, Bermuda-green
 * bice green
 * bladder green, bladder-green
 * bleaching green, bleaching-green
 * bottle green, bottle-green
 * bowling green, bowling-green
 * bronze green, bronze-green
 * Brunswick green Brunswick-green
 * cedar green, cedar-green
 * celandine green, celandine-green
 * chrome green, chrome-green
 * crown green
 * dark green, dark-green
 * deep green, deep-green
 * emerald green, emerald-green
 * fair green
 * forest green, forest-green


 * gaudy-green
 * grape green, grape-green
 * grass green, grass-green
 * green-blind
 * green fee, greens fee
 * greengrocer
 * greenhouse
 * green-keeper, greenkeeper, greenskeeper
 * greenless
 * greenside
 * greensman
 * greenwash
 * green with envy
 * Gretna Green
 * Guignet's green
 * Hungary green, Hungary-green
 * hunter green, hunter's green
 * in the green
 * Jack-in-the-green
 * jade green, jade-green
 * jungle green, jungle-green
 * kelly green, kelly-green
 * Kendal green
 * Kensal Green
 * leek green, leek-green
 * lettuce green, lettuce-green


 * light green, light-green
 * lime green, lime-green
 * Lincoln green
 * little green man
 * long green
 * Marina green, Marina-green
 * mineral green, mineral-green
 * mitis green
 * Monastral Green
 * mondegreen
 * moss green, moss-green
 * mountain green, mountain-green
 * Nile green, Nile-green
 * olive green, olive-green
 * on the green
 * overgreen
 * Paris green
 * parrot green, parrot-green
 * pea green, pea-green
 * pistachio green, pistachio-green
 * Prussian green, Prussian-green
 * putting green, putting-green


 * red-green colorblindness, red-green colour blindness
 * regreen
 * RGB
 * rifle-green
 * rub of the green, rub on the green
 * Russian green, Russian-green
 * sage-green
 * sap-green
 * Saxon green, Saxon-green
 * Scheele's green
 * schweinfurt green
 * sea green, sea-green
 * see any green in one's eye
 * Spanish green, Spanish-green
 * spring green
 * town green
 * turquoise green, turquoise-green
 * Veronese green, Veronese-green
 * Vienna green
 * village green
 * vine-leaf green, vine-leaf-green

Related terms

 * greens
 * wintergreen

Verb

 * 1)  To make (something) green, to turn (something) green.
 * 2)  To add green spaces to (a town).
 * 3)  To become environmentally aware.
 * 4)  To make (something) environmentally friendly.

Synonyms

 * engreen

Derived terms

 * greenable
 * greening

Adjectives for Green
shimmering; woodsy; opaque; dense; diversified; aqueous; resonant; luxuriant; dull; quiet; waving; pale; varied; feathery; delicate; wanton; pistache; exquisite; emerald; dim; faint; mossy; luminous; malachite; leaping; neutral; festive; luscious; slimy; lesser; consecutive; tender; tainted; translucent; glossy; arbute; rusty; delicious; willow; fresher; serpent; turquoise.

Thesaurus
Astroturf, a novice at, a stranger to, acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acescent, adolescent, aestival, alive, amateur, amateurish, artificial turf, artless, at half cock, awkward, befoolable, beryl-green, berylline, blankminded, blooming, blue-green, bluish-green, blunt, boodle, bowling green, brass, bread, bucks, budding, cabbage, callow, chartreuse, chips, chloranemia, chloranemic, chloremia, chlorine, chlorophyll, chlorosis, chlorotic, citrine, citrinous, common, conservationist, crab, crabbed, cullible, deceivable, deludable, dewy, dinero, distrustful, dough, dry, dumb, dupable, easy, eidetic, emerald, empty, empty-headed, enduring, envious, environmental, environmentalist, ever-new, evergreen, exploitable, fairway, firsthand, fledgling, flush, flushed, foliaged, foolable, fresh, fresh as April, gauche, gelt, gilt, glaucescence, glaucescent, glaucous, glaucous-green, glaucousness, golf course, golf links, grassland, grassplot, grassy, grease, green as grass, green stuff, green with jealousy, green-blue, green-eyed, greenish, greenish-blue, greenish-yellow, greenishness, greenness, greensick, greensickness, greenyard, groping, grounds, growing, gullible, half-baked, half-cocked, half-grown, hoaxable, holly, hoodwinkable, horn-mad, humbugable, ignorant, ill-digested, immature, impubic, inane, inexperienced, inexpert, infant, ingenuous, innocent, intact, invidious, ivy, ivy-green, jack, jaundice-eyed, jaundiced, jealous, juicy, juvenile, kale, kept in remembrance, know-nothing, lasting, lawn, leafy, leaved, maiden, maidenly, mazuma, minor, moolah, mopus, naive, neoteric, nescient, nestling, new, new to, new-fledged, oil of palms, ointment, olivaceous, olive, olive-green, oof, ooftish, original, park, patinate, patinize, persuadable, pickled, pink, plaza, porraceous, preservationist, pristine, pungent, putting green, raw, recalled, recollected, remembered, retained, rhino, ripening, rocks, rosy, rosy-cheeked, ruddy, rural, sappy, sec, seduceable, sempervirent, shekels, simoleons, simple, smaragdine, soft, sour, sour as vinegar, soured, sourish, spondulics, springlike, square, strange to, sugar, summerlike, summery, suspicious, sward, tart, tartish, tender, tentative, the needful, tin, unaccustomed to, unacquainted, unacquainted with, unadult, unapprized, unbeaten, uncomprehending, unconversant, unconversant with, underage, underripe, undeveloped, unenlightened, unexperienced, unfamiliar, unfamiliar with, unfledged, unforgotten, unformed, ungrown, unhandled, unilluminated, uninformed, uninitiated, uninitiated in, unintelligent, unknowing, unlicked, unmatured, unmellowed, unposted, unpracticed, unpracticed in, unripe, unseasoned, unskilled, unskilled in, unsophisticated, unsure, unsweet, unsweetened, untested, untouched, untrained, untried, untrodden, unused, unused to, unversed, unversed in, vacuous, verdancy, verdant, verdigris, verdure, verdurous, vernal, vernant, vert, victimizable, village green, vinegarish, vinegary, virescence, virescent, virgin, virginal, viridity, vivid, wampum, yellow, yellow-eyed, yellowish-green, young, youthful

Etymology
From grene:, from  grene:, from  (compare West Frisian grien:, Dutch groen:, German grün:, Swedish grön: Danish grøn:), from  (compare Old Church Slavonic undefined: ), from. More at.

Adjective

 * Afrikaans:
 * Akkadian:
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic:
 * Amuzgo: bi
 * Arabic:, خضراء,  خضر
 * Armenian:
 * Azeri:
 * Basque:, orlegi
 * Baure:
 * Belarusian: зялёны
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton:, gwer
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Corsican:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Erzya: пиже (piže)
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Fijian: karakarawa
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Gilbertese:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient Greek:
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hawaiian:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hopi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Acehnese:
 * Balinese:
 * Buginese:
 * Javanese: ijo, ijem, wilis, hijo
 * Madurese:
 * Makasar:
 * Minangkabau:
 * Sasak:
 * Sundanese: hejo
 * Interlingua:
 * Irish: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: の (みどり),
 * Khmer: bay tɑɑŋ


 * Korean: 푸르다 (pureuda)
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: سه‌وز, که‌سک
 * Latgalian:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Lojban:
 * Low German: gröön, gräun
 * Luxembourgish: gréng
 * Malayalam: പച്ച
 * Maltese:
 * Manchu: (niowanggiyan)
 * Manx: glass
 * Maori: kaakaariki
 * Nahuatl: xoxoctic
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Nottoway-Meherrin:
 * Novial:
 * O'odham:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Old Provençal:
 * Ossetian:
 * Papiamentu:
 * Persian: (sæbz)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch:
 * Russian:
 * Samoan: lanumeamata
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: зелена
 * Roman: zelena
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:, ,
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian:
 * Upper Sorbian: zeleny
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: bérde, lunti
 * Tahitian: ,
 * Thai: สีเขียว
 * Tibetan:
 * Tongan: lanu-mata
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: ýaşyl
 * Tuvaluan:
 * Uyghur: يېشىل
 * Vietnamese: (màu) xanh, (màu) xanh lá cây, (màu) xanh lục, lục (archaic)
 * Volapük: grünik
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:
 * Wu: (Rúnüt Suodsy-réro): lorg (Suzhou)


 * French:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 病弱な


 * Korean: 비리비리하다 (biribiri-hada)
 * Swedish:


 * Basque: heldugabe
 * Catalan: verd
 * Croatian:
 * Dutch: een groentje, onervaren
 * Finnish:
 * French: peu expérimenté, peu expérimentée (not very experienced); nouveau ,  nouvelle  (new), bleu
 * Galician:
 * German:, ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: glas
 * Japanese:


 * Korean: 풋나기다 (putnagida)
 * Nahuatl: yancuic
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, зелёный
 * Scottish Gaelic: glas
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: (kĭeow),  (dtòk kĭeow)
 * Turkish: acemi,
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:


 * Catalan: verd
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:


 * Indonesian:
 * Luxembourgish: gréng
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:


 * Finnish: vihreä kateudesta
 * French: vert de jalousie
 * Hebrew: ירוק מקנאה


 * Italian: verde di invidia
 * Portuguese: verde de inveja
 * Swedish: grön av avund


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Portuguese:


 * Russian: неспелый, зелёный
 * Turkish:


 * Finnish:

Noun

 * Afrikaans: groen
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: berde
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: verd
 * Central Atlas Tamazight: azegzau
 * Chinese: 綠色, 绿色 (lǜsè); 青 (qīng)
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hausa: kṓṛḕ
 * Hebrew: ירוק [Yarok]
 * Hindi: हरा (harā)
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: uaine (painted or dyed green), glas (of grass, trees, etc.)
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 緑 (みどり, midori)
 * Javanese: ijo, ijem
 * Korean: (chorok),  (noksek)
 * Kurdish:
 * Kurmanji: kesk, sewz
 * Sorani: سه‌وز, که‌سک
 * Kyrgyz: жашыл (jaşıl)
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:


 * Lithuanian: žalias
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: പച്ച (pachcha)
 * Maltese:
 * Manx: glass
 * Maori: kakariki
 * Navajo:
 * O'odham:
 * Persian: (sæbz)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: uaine (painted or dyed green), glas (of grass, trees, etc.), gorm (of grass, trees, etc.)
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: зелена
 * Roman: zelena
 * Slovene:
 * Somali: cagaar
 * Spanish:
 * Sundanese: héjo
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Telugu: ఆకుపచ్చ (aakupaccha)
 * Thai: (sĕe kĭeow)
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: ýaşyl
 * Ukrainian: зелений (zelenyj)
 * Uyghur: يېشىل
 * Vietnamese: (màu) xanh, (màu) xanh lá cây, (màu) xanh lục, lục (archaic)
 * Volapük: grün
 * Welsh: ,
 * West Frisian: grien
 * Wu: (Rúnüt Suodsy-réro): lor, lorgneser (Suzhou)


 * Basque: berde
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician:


 * German: Grüne
 * Italian:
 * Latvian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Vietnamese: đảng viên đảng Xanh


 * Finnish:

Verb

 * Finnish: värjätä/muuttaa/maalata vihreäksi
 * French: verdir


 * Vietnamese: làm (màu) xanh; nhuộm xanh (to dye green)


 * Finnish: rakentaa/lisätä viheralueita


 * Spanish: berdegunetu

Anagrams

 * genre
 * neger
 * regen

Etymology
From green:.

Noun

 * 1)  green a putting green; the part of a golf course near the hole