Synonyms for green
- adjective
- noun
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Fresh — full of life and vigour; fresh and vigorous; new; recent; young
new, fresh, blooming, virgin, wet, unused, pristine, youthful, virginal, nascent, novel, recent, verdurous rare
2. Unseasoned — inexperienced
unseasoned, callow, inexperienced, punk, unexperienced, unskilled, inexpert, unseen, awkward, untrained, unversed, unpracticed US, unpractised UK, strange dated, unfledged rare
3. Gullible — naive or unaware of obvious facts
gullible, dewy-eyed, simple, naive, unsophisticated, innocent, ignorant, credulous, naif, fleeceable rare
Other
environment-friendly, unripe, raw, eco-friendly, immature, environmentally friendly, ecologically friendly informal, tart, unprocessed, envious, unsmoked, unripened
Noun
1. Greenie — A member of a green party; an environmentalist
greenie, environmentalist, tree hugger slang
3. Emerald — the color of grass and leaves; a primary additive color midway between yellow and blue which is evoked by…
Other
greenness, leafy vegetable, lawn, chlorophyll, bowling green, putting green, chlorine, burgeon, smaragdine rare, viridity rare
Definitions
- adj. 1
Of a green hue.
He is wearing a green shirt.
- adj. 2
Inexperienced.
John's kind of green, so take it easy on him this first week.
- n. 1
The color of grass and leaves; a primary additive color midway between yellow and blue which is evoked by light between roughly 495–570 nm.
- n. 2
A member of a green party; an environmentalist.
Related words
- Word family
- greens greenback green-blue greenbrier greenchop greenen greener greenery
- Phrases
- green goddess green bean green gram green soy green plover green laver green woodpecker green corn
- Is a kind of
- color hue pigment
Forms
- Plural
- greens → greenies, environmentalists, parks, commons…
Example sentences
- wet Wet and stormy areas will get wetter and stormier.
- blooming The mountain ash is blooming. It's time to sow flax.
- punk He listened to his old punk records nostalgically.
- unseen Espionage often goes unnoticed, but never unseen.
- greenish A greenish fish is calmly swimming in the stream.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| green | rising | |
| wet | steady | |
| blooming | steady | |
| punk | rising | |
| unseen | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- new1, wet1, raw1, jet1
- 4 letters
- park1, punk1, lawn1, lime1, tart1, vert1, naif
- 5 letters
- fresh1, novel2, naive2, virid
- 6 letters
- common2, simple2, recent2, virgin2, unused2, unseen2, callow2, unripe
- 7 letters
- strange1, awkward2, commons2, emerald2, envious3, nascent2, verdant2, greenie, burgeon2
- 8 letters
- innocent3, ignorant3, immature3, youthful2, chlorine2, blooming2, pristine2, gullible3, greenish2, virginal3, inexpert, unversed, unsmoked, viridity
- 9 letters
- unskilled2, untrained2, credulous3, greenness2, unripened, verdurous, unfledged, virescent
- 10 letters
- unseasoned, fleeceable, smaragdine
- 11 letters
- chlorophyll3, unprocessed3, unpracticed, unpractised
- 13 letters
- inexperienced5, unexperienced
- 15 letters
- unsophisticated6
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (novel2 = 2 syllables).