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What does greenest mean?

Part of speech

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  • greenest, adjective, superlative of green.

WordNet

WordNet by Princeton University

Noun

Plural: greens

green - green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass
  greenness, viridity
  chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour a color that has hue
  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
  pea green, yellow green, yellowish green, chartreuse, paris green a shade of green tinged with yellow
  blue green, bluish green, teal a blue-green color or pigment; "they painted it a light shade of bluish green"
green - a river that rises in western Wyoming and flows southward through Utah to become a tributary of the Colorado River
  Green River
  equality state, wy, wyoming a state in the western United States; mountainous in the west and north with the Great Plains in the east
green - an environmentalist who belongs to the Green Party
  conservationist, environmentalist someone who works to protect the environment from destruction or pollution
  green party an environmentalist political party
green - an area of closely cropped grass surrounding the hole on a golf course; "the ball rolled across the green and into the bunker"
  putting green, putting surface
  land site, site physical position in relation to the surroundings; "the sites are determined by highly specific sequences of nucleotides"
green - 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)
  William Green
green - any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables
  greens, leafy vegetable
  veg, veggie, vegetable edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant
  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
  chard, leaf beet, spinach beet, swiss chard 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 a horse of a brownish orange to light brown color
  french sorrel greens having small tart oval to pointed leaves; preferred to common sorrel for salads
green - a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area; "they went for a walk in the park"
  park, commons, common
  parcel of land, piece of ground, piece of land, parcel, tract the allotment of some amount by dividing something; "death gets more than its share of attention from theologians"
  populated area, urban area a geographical area constituting a city or town
  amusement park, pleasure ground, funfair a commercially operated park with stalls and shows for amusement
  village green a village park consisting of a plot of grassy land
green - street names for ketamine
  K, jet, super acid, special K, honey oil, cat valium, super C

Verb

greens, greening, greened  

green - turn or become green; "The trees are greening"
  discolour, discolor, color, colour change color, often in an undesired manner; "The shirts discolored"

Adjective

green, greener, greenest

green - not fully developed or mature; not ripe; "unripe fruit"; "fried green tomatoes"; "green wood"
  unripe, unripened, immature
  mature, ripe fully considered and perfected; "mature plans"
green - 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"
  greenish, light-green, dark-green
  chromatic being or having or characterized by hue
green - concerned with or supporting or in conformity with the political principles of the Green Party
green - looking pale and unhealthy; "you're looking green"; "green around the gills"
green - naive and easily deceived or tricked; "at that early age she had been gullible and in love"
  fleeceable, gullible
  naif, naive inexperienced
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Wiktionary Wiktionary dictionary logo

  • green (Noun)
    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.
  • green (Noun)
    A member of a green party ; an environmentalist.
  • green (Noun)
    A putting green , the part of a golf course near the hole.
  • green (Noun)
    The surface upon which bowls is played.
  • green (Noun)
    One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 3 points.
  • green (Noun)
    A public patch of land in the middle of a settlement.
  • green (Noun)
    marijuana.
  • green (Noun)
    Money.
  • green (Verb)
    To make something green, to turn something green.
  • green (Verb)
    To become or grow green in colour.
  • green (Verb)
    To add greenspaces to a town.
  • green (Verb)
    To become environmentally aware.
  • green (Verb)
    To make something environmentally friendly.
  • green (Adjective)
    Having green as its color.
  • green (Adjective)
    Sickly, unwell.
  • green (Adjective)
    Inexperienced.
  • green (Adjective)
    environmentally Environmentally friendly .
  • green (Adjective)
    Overcome with envy.
  • green (Adjective)
    Describing a pitch which, even if there is no visible grass, still contains a significant amount of moisture.
  • green (Adjective)
    Of bacon or similar smallgoods, unprocessed, raw, unsmoked; not smoked or spiced. “unsmoked bacon used to be called green bacon, though the term is losing currency” Delia Online: Bacon, including gammon.
  • green (Adjective)
    Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen.
  • green (Adjective)
    Of wine, high or too high in acidity.
  • green (Adjective)
    Of freshly cut wood or lumber that has not been dried, containing moisture and therefore relatively more flexible or springy.
  • green (Adjective)
    Naïve or unaware of obvious facts.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

  • green (superl.)
    Having the color of grass when fresh and growing; resembling that color of the solar spectrum which is between the yellow and the blue; verdant; emerald.
  • green (superl.)
    Having a sickly color; wan.
  • green (superl.)
    Full of life aud vigor; fresh and vigorous; new; recent; as, a green manhood; a green wound.
  • green (superl.)
    Not ripe; immature; not fully grown or ripened; as, green fruit, corn, vegetables, etc.
  • green (superl.)
    Not roasted; half raw.
  • green (superl.)
    Immature in age or experience; young; raw; not trained; awkward; as, green in years or judgment.
  • green (superl.)
    Not seasoned; not dry; containing its natural juices; as, green wood, timber, etc.
  • green (n.)
    The color of growing plants; the color of the solar spectrum intermediate between the yellow and the blue.
  • green (n.)
    A grassy plain or plat; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage; as, the village green.
  • green (n.)
    Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths; -- usually in the plural.
  • green (n.)
    pl. Leaves and stems of young plants, as spinach, beets, etc., which in their green state are boiled for food.
  • green (n.)
    Any substance or pigment of a green color.
  • green (v. t.)
    To make green.
  • green (v. i.)
    To become or grow green.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

  • green
    Having green as its colour; having the hue of that portion of the visible spectrum lying between yellow and blue, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 490 to 570 nanometers.
  • green
    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.
  • green
    Easily deceived or duped.
  • green
    The part of a golf course near the hole.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

  • green
    grēn, adj. of the colour of growing plants: growing: vigorous: new: unripe: inexperienced, simple, raw, easily imposed on: young.—n. the colour of growing plants: a small green or grassy plat, esp. that common to a village or town for public or merely ornamental purposes: the plot of grass belonging to a house or group of houses, usually at the back: (golf) the whole links on which the game is played, the putting-ground round the individual holes, generally counted as 20 yards from the hole all round: (pl.) fresh leaves: wreaths: the leaves and stems of green vegetables for food, esp. plants of the cabbage kind, spinach, &c.: a political party at Constantinople, under Justinian, opposed to the Blues.—ns. Green′back, popular name for the paper money first issued by the United States in 1862; Green′-cloth, a gaming-table: a department of the royal household, chiefly concerned with the commissariat—from the green cloth on the table round which its officials sat; Green′-crop, a crop of green vegetables, as grasses, turnips, &c.; Green′-earth, a mineral of a green colour and earthy character, used as a pigment by painters in water-colours; Green′ery, green plants: verdure.—adj. Green′-eyed, having green eyes: (fig.) jealous—Green-eyed monster, jealousy.—ns. Green′finch, Green linnet, a native bird of the finch family, of a green colour, slightly mixed with gray and brown; Green′grocer, a grocer or dealer who retails greens, or fresh vegetables and fruits; Green′-hand, an inferior sailor; Green′-heart, or Bebeeru, a very hard variety of wood found in the West Indies and South America; Green′horn, a raw, inexperienced youth; Green′house, a building, chiefly covered with glass and artificially heated, for the protection of exotic plants, or to quicken the cultivation of other plants or fruit; Green′ing (Keats), a becoming green: a kind of apple green when ripe.—adj. Green′ish, somewhat green.—n. Green′ishness.—adv. Green′ly, immaturely, unskilfully.—ns. Green′ness; Green′room, the retiring-room of actors in a theatre, which originally had the walls coloured green; Green′sand, a sandstone in which green specks of iron occur; Green′shank, a bird of the snipe family, in the same genus as the redshank and some of the sandpipers; Green′-sick′ness, chlorosis (see under Chlorine); Green′-snake, a harmless colubrine snake common in the southern United States; Green′stone, a rock term, now disused, for any dark-green basic crystalline (trap-rock); Green′sward, sward or turf green with grass; Green′-tea (see Tea); Greenth, greenness, verdure; Green′-tur′tle (see Turtle); Green′-vit′riol (see Vit′riol); Green′-weed, a name given to certain half-shrubby species of genista; Green′wood, a wood or collection of trees covered with leaves: wood newly cut—also used as an adj., as in 'the greenwood shade.'—adj. Green′y.—Green in my eye, in a colloquial question=Do I look credulous or easily imposed on?—Green, or Emerald, Isle, Ireland.—Greenstick fracture (see Fracture). [A.S. gréne; Ger. grün, Dut. groen, green, Ice. grænn, allied to grow.]

Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book

  • green
    Raw and untutored; a metaphor from unripe fruit--thus Shakspeare makes Pandulph say: "How green are you and fresh in this old world!"

Vulgar Tongue DictionaryDictionary of the Vulgar Tongue 👅

  • green
    Doctor Green; i.e. grass: a physician, or rather medicine, found very successful in curing most disorders to which horses are liable. My horse is not well, I shall send him to Doctor Green.
  • green
    Young, inexperienced, unacquainted; ignorant. How green the cull was not to stag how the old file planted the books. How ignorant the booby was not to perceive how the old sharper placed the cards in such a manner as to insure the game.

Wikipedia Wiktionary dictionary logo

  • Green is a color. It is one of the colors of the rainbow. Green is between the yellow and blue colors in a rainbow. Green paint can be made by mixing yellow paint and blue paint together.

    Green light, like all light, is formed from waves. In its wave, the distance between the smallest repeating parts (the wavelength) is about 550 nanometers (one-billionth of a meter).

    Most leaves of growing plants, such as trees and bushes, are green. This is because there is a chemical in leaves, called chlorophyll, which is green.

    Meaning of Green.

    Green is seen as the color of nature. It is a symbol of growth, harmony, freshness, and fertility.

    Dark green is also associated with money in the United States (American dollars are called "greenbacks).

    Green is also seen as be able to stay the same and endurance. Sometimes green can stand for "no experience". For example, a 'greenhorn' is a beginner. In heraldry, green stands for growth and hope. Green also stands for safety. It is the color for "GO" on traffic lights.

    Because green is seen as the color of nature, it is often used with environment-friendly products.

    A person who is said to have a "green thumb" is good at growing plants.

    "Dark green" is associated with ambition, greed, and jealousy.

    A very pale "Yellow-green" can mean sickness, being scared, discord, and jealousy.

    However, a bright "chartreuse green" can mean health and healing.

    "Aqua" is associated with making someone feel better and protection, as well as being associated with

Part of speech

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  • green, verb, present, 1st person singular of green (infinitive).
  • green, verb (infinitive).
  • green, noun, singular of greens.
  • green, adjective.

Pronunciation

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