green

/grin/

/grin/

Other forms: greens; greener; greening; greenest; greened

Green is a color on the spectrum between blue and yellow, or made by mixing those colors. You might love the brilliant color of the green grass in the spring time.

Green is a color you tend to see everywhere in nature, especially in the summer. Grass, trees, and plants are varying shades of green, and so is the lettuce that's used to make "a green salad." Green also means "unripe" as in a tomato, or "inexperienced," as in someone who's new at a job. In the 16th century, Shakespeare coined the phrase "the green-ey'd monster," and since then green has symbolized jealousy or envy.

Definitions of green

1. adjective

   of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass
   “a green tree”

   “green fields”

   “green paint”

   synonyms: dark-green, greenish, light-green

   chromatic

   being, having, or characterized by hue
2. noun

   green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass
   synonyms: greenness

   types:

   greenishness

   the property of being somewhat green

   sea green

   the property of a moderate green color resembling the waters of the sea

   sage green

   the color of sage leaves

   bottle green

   dark to moderate or greyish green

   chrome green

   a brilliant green color

   emerald

   the green color of an emerald

   olive green, olive-green

   a color that is lighter and greener than olive

   Paris green, chartreuse, pea green, yellow green, yellowish green

   a shade of green tinged with yellow

   blue green, bluish green, teal

   a blue-green color or pigment

   jade, jade green

   a light green color varying from bluish green to yellowish green

   cyan

   a primary subtractive color for light; has a blue-green color

   type of:

   chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour

   a color that has hue
3. noun

   a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area
   synonyms: common, commons, park

   examples:

   Central Park

   a large park in Manhattan

   types:

   amusement park, funfair, pleasure ground

   an entertainment venue with stalls, shows, rides, and games

   village green

   a village park consisting of a plot of grassy land

   theme park

   an amusement park that is organized around some theme, such as "the world of tomorrow"

   type of:

   parcel, parcel of land, piece of ground, piece of land, tract

   an extended area of land
4. noun

   an area of closely cropped grass surrounding the hole on a golf course
   “the ball rolled across the green and into the bunker”

   synonyms: putting green, putting surface

   type of:

   land site, site

   the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located)
5. noun

   any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables
   synonyms: greens, leafy vegetable

   types:

   chop-suey greens

   succulent and aromatic young dark green leaves used in Chinese and Vietnamese and Japanese cooking

   sprout

   a newly grown bud (especially from a germinating seed)

   beet green

   young leaves of the beetroot

   Swiss chard, chard, leaf beet, spinach beet

   long succulent whitish stalks with large green leaves

   salad green, salad greens

   greens suitable for eating uncooked as in salads

   dandelion green

   edible leaves of the common dandelion collected from the wild; used in salads and in making wine

   lamb's-quarter, pigweed, wild spinach

   leaves collected from the wild

   wild spinach

   leafy greens collected from the wild and used as a substitute for spinach

   turnip greens

   tender leaves of young white turnips

   common sorrel, sorrel

   large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces

   French sorrel

   greens having small tart oval to pointed leaves; preferred to common sorrel for salads

   spinach

   dark green leaves; eaten cooked or raw in salads

   bean sprout

   any of various sprouted beans: especially mung beans or lentils or edible soybeans

   alfalfa sprout

   sprouted alfalfa seeds

   lettuce

   leaves of any of various plants of Lactuca sativa

   celtuce

   leaves having celery-like stems eaten raw or cooked

   chicory, curly endive

   crisp spiky leaves with somewhat bitter taste

   chicory escarole, endive, escarole

   variety of endive having leaves with irregular frilled edges

   cress

   pungent leaves of any of numerous cruciferous herbs

   salad burnet

   leaves sometimes used for salad

   type of:

   veg, vegetable, veggie

   edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant
6. verb

   turn or become green
   “The trees are greening”

   type of:

   color, colour, discolor, discolour

   change color, often in an undesired manner
7. adjective

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

   not fully developed or mature; not ripe
   “fried green tomatoes”

   “green wood”

   synonyms: immature, unripe, unripened

   unaged

   not subjected to an aging process

   antonyms:

   ripe

   fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used

   aged, ripened

   of wines, fruit, cheeses; having reached a desired or final condition; (`aged' pronounced as one syllable)

   mellow, mellowed

   having a full and pleasing flavor through proper aging

   overripe

   too ripe and beginning to turn soft
9. adjective

   naive and easily deceived or tricked
   synonyms: fleeceable, gullible

   naif, naive

   marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience
10. adjective

    looking pale and unhealthy
    “you're looking green”

    “green around the gills”

    synonyms:

    ill, sick

    affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function
11. noun

    street names for ketamine
    synonyms: K, cat valium, honey oil, jet, special K, super C, super acid

    type of:

    Ketalar, ketamine, ketamine hydrochloride

    a general anesthetic and tranquilizer (not a barbiturate) that is administered intravenously or intramuscularly; used mainly by veterinarians or for minor surgery with geriatric or pediatric patients; taken in large doses it causes hallucinations similar to those associated with the use of PCP