green

Meaning

1. Of a green hue; with a hue which is of grass or leaves.
2. Sickly, unwell.
3. Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen.
4. Inexperienced.
5. Islamist.
6. Full of life and vigour; fresh and vigorous; new; recent.
7. Naive or unaware of obvious facts.
8. Overcome with envy.
9. Environmentally friendly.
10. Describing a pitch which, even if there is no visible grass, still contains a significant amount of moisture.
11. Of bacon or similar smallgoods: unprocessed, raw, unsmoked; not smoked or spiced.
12. Not fully roasted; half raw.
13. Of film: freshly processed by the laboratory and not yet fully physically hardened.
14. Of freshly cut wood or lumber that has not been dried: containing moisture and therefore relatively more flexible or springy.
15. High or too high in acidity.
16. Having a sexual connotation.
17. Having a color charge of green.
18. Being or relating to the green currencies of the European Union.
19. Subject to or involving a model of open access in which a published article is only available for to read for free after an embargo period.

unripe

blue

not yet ripe

not ripe

putting surface

emeraldcolored

cat valium

honey oil

leafy vegetable

special K

super C

super acid

light-green

dark-green

putting-green

be green

bluish-green

bowelless

bowling green

color green

grass green

grass-land

green blue

greenish-yellow

inexperient

turn green

very green

very tender

adj 5 & 9 soft

yellow-green

smelling of milk

bright green

greenish yellow

be inexperienced

golflinks

verid

yellow-beaked

of a green colour

whip-snake

under-ripe

dryophidae

not dry

abortive

environmentally friendly

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɡɹiːn/

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *grōniz Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂ Proto-Germanic *-į̄ Proto-West Germanic *-ī Proto-West Germanic *grōnī Old English grēne Middle English grene English green From Middle English grene, from Old English grēne, from Proto-West Germanic *grōnī, from Proto-Germanic *grōniz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- (“to grow”). More at grow. See also 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, Icelandic grænn.