Green
[n] the property of being green; resembling the color of growing grass
[n] any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables
[n] an area of closely cropped grass surrounding the hole on a golf course; "the ball rolled across the green and into the trap"
[n] a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area; "they went for a walk in the park"
[n] a river that rises in western Wyoming and flows southward through Utah to become a tributary of the Colorado River
[n] an environmentalist who belongs to the Green Party
[n] United States labor leader who was president of the American Federation of Labor from 1924 to 1952 and who led the struggle with the Congress of Industrial Organizations (1873-1952)
[adj] similar to the color of fresh grass; "a green salad"; "green fields"; "green paint"
[adj] showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another's advantages; "he was never covetous before he met her"; "jealous of his success and covetous of his possessions"; "envious of their art collection"; "he was green with envy"
[adj] not fully developed or mature; not ripe; "unripe fruit"; "fried green tomatoes"; "green wood"
[adj] naive and easily deceived or tricked; "at that early age she had been gullible and in love"
[adj] looking pale and unhealthy; "you're looking green"; "green around the gills"
[adj] (of a product) not harmful to the environment
[adj] concerned with or supporting protection of the environment as a political principle
[v] turn or become green; "The trees are greening"
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Synonyms
chromatic, common, commons, covetous, dark-green, desirous, envious, fleeceable, Green River, greenish, greenness, greens, gullible, ill, immature, jealous, leafy vegetable, light-green, naif, naive, park, putting green, sick, unaged, unripe, unripened, v
Related Terms
a novice at, a stranger to, acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acescent, adolescent, aestival, alive, amateur, amateurish, artificial turf, artless, Astroturf, at half cock, awkward, befoolable, beryl-green, berylline, blankminded, blooming, blue-green, bluish-gre