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foolish
English
Etymology
From Middle English folisch; equivalent to fool +? -ish.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fu?.l??/
Adjective
foolish (comparative foolisher or more foolish, superlative foolishest or most foolish)
- (of a person, an action, etc.) Lacking good sense or judgement; unwise.
- Resembling or characteristic of a fool.
Synonyms
- absurd
- idiotic
- ridiculous
- silly
- unwise
Antonyms
- wise
Derived terms
- a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds
- foolishly
- foolishness
Translations
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green
English
Pronunciation
- (UK, General Australian) enPR: gr?n, IPA(key): /??i?n/
- (US, Canada) enPR: gr?n, IPA(key): /??in/
- Rhymes: -i?n
Etymology 1
From Middle English grene, from Old English gr?ne, from Proto-West Germanic *gr?n?, from Proto-Germanic *gr?niz (compare 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), from Proto-Indo-European *g?reh?- (“to grow”). More at grow.
Adjective
green (comparative greener, superlative greenest)
- Having green as its color.
- Synonyms: verdant, vert
- (figuratively, of people) Sickly, unwell.
- Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen.
- (figuratively) Inexperienced.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:inexperienced
- 2008, Richard R. Rust, Renegade Champion: The Unlikely Rise of Fitzrada (page 91)
- He acted like a green racehorse, plunging over his jumps, tearing to the front of the field of riders.
- (figuratively, of people) Naive or unaware of obvious facts.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:gullible
- (figuratively, of people) Overcome with envy.
- (figuratively) Environmentally friendly.
- Synonym: eco-friendly
- (cricket) Describing a pitch which, even if there is no visible grass, still contains a significant amount of moisture.
- (dated) Of bacon or similar smallgoods: unprocessed, raw, unsmoked; not smoked or spiced.
- Synonyms: raw, unprocessed, unsmoked
- (dated) Not fully roasted; half raw.
- 1725, Isaac Watts, Logick, or The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry After Truth With a Variety of Rules to Guard
- We say the meat is green when half roasted.
- 1725, Isaac Watts, Logick, or The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry After Truth With a Variety of Rules to Guard
- (film, television, historical) Of film: freshly processed by the laboratory and not yet fully physically hardened.
- 1947, Theatre Catalog (volume 5, page 570)
- Following initial drying of film in a motion picture laboratory (after treatment in a hardening-fixing bath) the gelatin structure of an emulsion contracts and is permanently changed. The hardening action still continues for a time as a further small amount of residual moisture is given up. While traces of excess moisture remain, the emulsion is "green," relatively soft, […]
- 1961, American Cinematographer (volume 42, page 618)
- […] attaching pre-photographed and pre-printed footage of a focusing chart to daily film footage without taking into consideration that such film may be worn or dried out and therefore, in its plane of best focus, would not be identical to that of the green film of the daily rushes.
- 1947, Theatre Catalog (volume 5, page 570)
- Of freshly cut wood or lumber that has not been dried: containing moisture and therefore relatively more flexible or springy.
- (wine) High or too high in acidity.
- Synonym: tart
- Full of life and vigour; fresh and vigorous; new; recent.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:new
- 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
- as valid against such an old and beneficent government as against […] the greenest usurpation
- (Philippines) Having a sexual connotation.
- (particle physics) Having a color charge of green.
- Being or relating to the green currencies of the European Union.
Antonyms
- (having green as its colour): nongreen, ungreen
- (having green as its colour charge): antigreen
- (of bacon: unprocessed): processed, smoked, spiced
- (of wine: high in acidity): cloy, sweet
- (of certain fruits: ready to be eaten): ripe
Derived terms
Pages starting with “green”.
Related terms
Translations
See green/translations § Adjective.
References
Etymology 2
From Middle English grene, from the adjective (see above).
Noun
green (plural greens)
- 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.
- (politics, sometimes capitalised) A member of a green party; an environmentalist.
- Synonyms: environmentalist, (Australian) greenie, tree hugger, treehugger
- Hyponyms: blue green, red green
- (golf) A putting green, the part of a golf course near the hole.
- (bowls) The surface upon which bowls is played.
- Synonym: bowling green
- (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 3 points.
- (Britain) a public patch of land in the middle of a settlement.
- A grassy plain; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage.
- (chiefly in the plural) Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths.
- Any substance or pigment of a green colour.
- A green light used as a signal.
- 1992, "How to Avoid the Most Embarrassing of Pilot Errors", in Flying Magazine (volume 119, number 6, page 94)
- To the casual cockpit observer, landing-gear operation appears to be one of the most elementary tasks we have to perform. Either the switch is up and the lights are out, or it's down and there are three greens.
- 1992, "How to Avoid the Most Embarrassing of Pilot Errors", in Flying Magazine (volume 119, number 6, page 94)
- (Britain, slang, uncountable) marijuana.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:marijuana
- (US, slang, uncountable) Money.
- (particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
See green/translations § Noun.
Etymology 3
From Middle English grenen, from Old English gr?nian (“to become green, flourish”), from Proto-Germanic *gr?nij?n?, *gr?nijan? (“to become green”), from the adjective (see above). Cognate with Saterland Frisian gräinje, German Low German grönen, German grünen, Swedish gröna, Icelandic gróna.
Verb
green (third-person singular simple present greens, present participle greening, simple past and past participle greened)
- (transitive) To make (something) green, to turn (something) green.
- Great spring before greened all the year.
- To become or grow green in colour.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Ancient Sage
- Her dust is greening in your leaf
- 1886, John Greenleaf Whittier, "Flowers in Winter"
- by greening slope and singing flood
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Ancient Sage
- (transitive) To add greenspaces to (a town, etc.).
- 2000, AIA Guide to New York City (page 58)
- The newer 39-story, 1.5-million-square-foot tower occupies much of the original Shearson Garden, a larger parklet that briefly greened the construction site to be, and is remembered fondly by nearby Tribecans.
- 2000, AIA Guide to New York City (page 58)
- (intransitive) To become environmentally aware.
- (transitive) To make (something) environmentally friendly.
Synonyms
- (make (something) green): engreen
Derived terms
Translations
See green/translations § Verb.
See also
Anagrams
- Egner, Geren, genre, neger, regen
Czech
Etymology
From English green.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??ri?n]
Noun
green m
- (slang, golf) green (a putting green; the part of a golf course near the hole)
Usage notes
Although the official term for the green is jamkovišt?, it is rarely used in practice. Instead, unofficial Czech versions of the English word green, variously spelled green, grýn, and grín, are used in practice.
Declension
References
Danish
Etymology
From English green.
Noun
green c (definite singular greenen, indefinite plural greens, definite plural greenene)
- (golf) a green, putting green (the closely mown area surrounding each hole on a golf course)
Further reading
- “green” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch
Etymology 1
Borrowed from North Germanic, from Old Norse gr?n.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?re?n/
- Hyphenation: green
- Rhymes: -e?n
Noun
green m (plural grenen)
- (obsolete) Scots pine, Pinus sylvestris
- Synonym: grove den
Derived terms
- grenen
- grenenhout
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English green.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ri?n/
- Hyphenation: green
- Rhymes: -i?n
Noun
green m (plural greens)
- (golf) green, putting green
German Low German
Alternative forms
- gren
- (in some other dialects) gröön (grön)
- (in some other dialects) gräun
Adjective
green
- (Low Prussian) green
Middle English
Alternative forms
- gre, gree
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French greer; equivalent to gre +? -en.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??re??n/
Verb
green (Late Middle English)
- To come to an understanding or agreement.
- (rare) To make a compact of reconciliation.
Conjugation
Descendants
- English: gree (obsolete)
- Scots: gree
References
- “gr??en, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-15.
North Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian gr?ne, from Proto-West Germanic *gr?n?, from Proto-Germanic *gr?niz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?re?n/
Adjective
green
- (Föhr-Amrum, Sylt) green
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
green m (definite singular greenen, indefinite plural greener, definite plural greenene)
- (golf) a green, putting green (the closely mown area surrounding each hole on a golf course)
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
green m (definite singular greenen, indefinite plural greenar, definite plural greenane)
- (golf) a green or putting green (the closely mown area surrounding each hole on a golf course)
Swedish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ri?n/
- Rhymes: -i?n
Noun
green c
- (golf) a green, putting green (the closely mown area around a hole on a golf course)
Declension
Anagrams
- gener, genre, neger
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