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adjective

ˈgrēn How to pronounce green (audio)
Definition of greennext
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as in lush
covered with a thick, healthy natural growth fields green with meadow grass

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2
as in inexperienced
lacking in adult experience or maturity a new pitcher who's pretty green, even by rookie standards

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as in naive
lacking in worldly wisdom or informed judgment in spite of her age, she's still green enough to be hoodwinked by fast-talking scammers

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green

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noun

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as in vegetation
green leaves or plants the lonely soldier dreamt of the fields of green that he had wandered in as a youth

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as in money
something (as pieces of stamped metal or printed paper) customarily and legally used as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, or a means of payment I need to save up some green before I can afford that cruise

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Recent Examples of green
Adjective
While renowned for its red brick buildings and lush green lawns, UCLA’s campus is also notorious for its steep hills. — Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2026 Part of the reproach stemmed from an over-reliance on cartoonish CGI effects, including a suit with pulsing green veins and an awkward digital mask. — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 16 Aug. 2026
Noun
Although not strictly required, many practitioners wear robes for their rituals; some groups prefer white robes, although others favor earthy colors like browns and greens. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Aug. 2026 Maceta stood contemplating the invincible green of the pastureland. — Literary Hub, 14 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for green
Recent Examples of Synonyms for green
  1. lush
  2. inexperienced
  3. naive
  4. vegetation
  5. money
  6. grown
  7. immature
  8. simple
Adjective
  • While renowned for its red brick buildings and lush green lawns, UCLA’s campus is also notorious for its steep hills.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2026
  • Charlie Neibergall / Associated Press Hours before first pitch at the new diamond, fathers and daughters played catch at the movie site along the infield and chased after baseballs in the lush grass that filled the outfield.
    — Scott Dochterman, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of lush
Adjective
  • There will be no lifeguards, and county rangers caution that the beach, like many along the Northern California coast, can have rip currents that pose a threat to inexperienced swimmers.
    — Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2026
  • So Harbaugh created this competition of two inexperienced kickers.
    — Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of inexperienced
Adjective
  • Unauthorized sequels reveal the extremes of why people make movies in the first place, from purely cynical money grabs to pure — even naive — devotion to characters and their world.
    — Katie Rife, IndieWire, 11 Aug. 2026
  • In just a few short weeks, his childish, naive world becomes brutally adult.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of naive
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  • The company, whose goats eat vegetation to help prevent wildfires, has about 4,000 animals and eight herders, who are each paid $60,000 a year.
    — Ananya Chetia, CNBC, 13 Aug. 2026
  • The setup creates a mutually beneficial microclimate where the vegetation cools the solar panels to boost their efficiency and the panels provide shade to support plant growth.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of vegetation
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  • Johnson was not in the team, the money was on the table, and his valuation was probably more likely to go down from there rather than up.
    — Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2026
  • The trend of hospitals asking for money up front represents a double whammy for patients.
    — Julie Appleby, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of money
Adjective
  • Jacquees looks toward what’s next, reflecting the confidence and grown-man perspective behind his new era.
    — Desjah Altvater, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • The hard drive alone contained nearly 500 gigabytes of files and thousands of explicit videos and images of children, including one roughly nine-minute video of a toddler performing oral sex on a grown man, court documents show.
    — Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of grown
Adjective
  • In the first stage, 3 to 6 months in a mouse [about 20 to 30 years in a human], there is a loss of certain fat and muscle cells, and of two immature cell types in the brain that have the capacity to regenerate different types of brain tissue.
    — Ingrid Wickelgren, Quanta Magazine, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The science remains too immature to show whether such behavior is inevitable, Hobbhahn says.
    — Chris Stokel-Walker, Scientific American, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of immature
Adjective
  • The task seemed like a simple one for a digital agent, as the booking form was online.
    — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Mungiu refuses to supply easy answers or simple paths to identification in this compelling provocation, which poses unresolvable questions to viewers about our biases and presumptions.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 11 Aug. 2026
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“Green.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/green. Accessed 18 Aug. 2026.

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