» green

Words people most associate with “green”:

  1. grass,
  2. red,
  3. blue,
  4. yellow,
  5. tree

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Noun (8 meanings)

1. green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass.

green, greenness, viridity

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

park, commons, common, green

Example:
  • “they went for a walk in the park”
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  • common (adjective) - belonging to or participated in by a community as a whole

3. 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).

Green, William Green

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4. an environmentalist who belongs to the Green Party.

Green

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  • Green Party (noun) - an environmentalist political party
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  • green (adjective) - concerned with or supporting or in conformity with the political principles of the Green Party

5. a river that rises in western Wyoming and flows southward through Utah to become a tributary of the Colorado River.

Green, Green River

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  • river (noun) - a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek)
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6. an area of closely cropped grass surrounding the hole on a golf course.

green, putting green, putting surface

Example:
  • “the ball rolled across the green and into the bunker”
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  • site, land site (noun) - the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located)
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7. any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables.

greens, green, leafy vegetable

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  • vegetable, veggie, veg (noun) - edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant
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8. street names for ketamine.

K, jet, super acid, special K, honey oil, green, cat valium, super C

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Verb (1 meaning)

1. turn or become green.

to green

Example:
  • “The trees are greening”
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Adjective (5 meanings)

1. of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass.

green, greenish, light-green, dark-green

Examples:
  • “a green tree”,
  • “green fields”,
  • “green paint”
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  • chromatic (adjective) - being or having or characterized by hue

2. concerned with or supporting or in conformity with the political principles of the Green Party.

green

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  • Green (noun) - an environmentalist who belongs to the Green Party
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  • Green Party (noun) - an environmentalist political party

3. not fully developed or mature; not ripe.

green, unripe, unripened, immature

Examples:
  • “unripe fruit”,
  • “fried green tomatoes”,
  • “green wood”
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  • ripe, mature (adjective) - fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used
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  • unaged (adjective) - not subjected to an aging process

4. looking pale and unhealthy.

green

Examples:
  • “you're looking green”,
  • “green around the gills”
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  • ill, sick (adjective) - affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function

5. naive and easily deceived or tricked.

fleeceable, green, gullible

Example:
  • “at that early age she had been gullible and in love”
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  • naive, naif (adjective) - marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience