Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun green

8 senses of green

Sense 1
green, greenness, viridity -- (green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass)
       => chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour -- (a color that has hue)

Sense 2
park, commons, common, green -- (a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area; "they went for a walk in the park")
       => tract, piece of land, piece of ground, parcel of land, parcel -- (an extended area of land)

Sense 3
Green, William 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))
       INSTANCE OF=> labor leader -- (a leader of a labor movement)

Sense 4
Green -- (an environmentalist who belongs to the Green Party)
       => environmentalist, conservationist -- (someone who works to protect the environment from destruction or pollution)

Sense 5
Green, Green River -- (a river that rises in western Wyoming and flows southward through Utah to become a tributary of the Colorado River)
       INSTANCE OF=> river -- (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek); "the river was navigable for 50 miles")

Sense 6
green, putting green, putting surface -- (an area of closely cropped grass surrounding the hole on a golf course; "the ball rolled across the green and into the bunker")
       => site, land site -- (the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located); "a good site for the school")

Sense 7
greens, green, leafy vegetable -- (any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables)
       => vegetable, veggie, veg -- (edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant)

Sense 8
K, jet, super acid, special K, honey oil, green, cat valium, super C -- (street names for ketamine)
       => ketamine, ketamine hydrochloride, Ketalar -- (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)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb green

1 sense of green

Sense 1
green -- (turn or become green; "The trees are greening")
       => discolor, discolour, colour, color -- (change color, often in an undesired manner; "The shirts discolored")

Antonyms of adj green

4 of 5 senses of green

Sense 1
green, greenish, light-green, dark-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")

INDIRECT (VIA chromatic) -> achromatic, neutral -- (having no hue; "neutral colors like black or white")

Sense 3
green (vs. ripe), unripe, unripened, immature -- (not fully developed or mature; not ripe; "unripe fruit"; "fried green tomatoes"; "green wood")

ripe (vs. green), mature -- (fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used; "ripe peaches"; "full-bodied mature wines")
        => aged, ripened -- (of wines, fruit, cheeses; having reached a desired or final condition; (`aged' pronounced as one syllable); "mature well-aged cheeses")
        => mellow, mellowed -- (having a full and pleasing flavor through proper aging; "a mellow port"; "mellowed fruit")
        => overripe -- (too ripe and beginning to turn soft)

Sense 4
green -- (looking pale and unhealthy; "you're looking green"; "green around the gills")

INDIRECT (VIA ill) -> well -- (in good health especially after having suffered illness or injury; "appears to be entirely well"; "the wound is nearly well"; "a well man"; "I think I'm well; at least I feel well")

Sense 5
fleeceable, green, gullible -- (naive and easily deceived or tricked; "at that early age she had been gullible and in love")

INDIRECT (VIA naive) -> sophisticated -- (having or appealing to those having worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir-faire; "sophisticated young socialites"; "a sophisticated audience"; "a sophisticated lifestyle"; "a sophisticated book")

Similarity of adj green

5 senses of green

Sense 1
green, greenish, light-green, dark-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")
       => chromatic (vs. achromatic) -- (being or having or characterized by hue)

Sense 2
green -- (concerned with or supporting or in conformity with the political principles of the Green Party)

Sense 3
green (vs. ripe), unripe, unripened, immature -- (not fully developed or mature; not ripe; "unripe fruit"; "fried green tomatoes"; "green wood")
       => unaged -- (not subjected to an aging process; "vodka is an unaged liquor from Russia")

Sense 4
green -- (looking pale and unhealthy; "you're looking green"; "green around the gills")
       => ill (vs. well), sick -- (affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function; "ill from the monotony of his suffering")

Sense 5
fleeceable, green, gullible -- (naive and easily deceived or tricked; "at that early age she had been gullible and in love")
       => naive (vs. sophisticated), naif -- (marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience; "a teenager's naive ignorance of life"; "the naive assumption that things can only get better"; "this naive simple creature with wide friendly eyes so eager to believe appearances")