green

1. (figurative, of people) Sickly, unwell.Examples: "Sally looks pretty green—is she going to be sick?"; "to look so green and pale"figuratively

2. (figurative) Inexperienced.Examples: "John's kind of green, so take it easy on him this first week."; "I might be angry[…] with the officious zeal which supposes that its green conceptions can instruct my grey hairs."; "He acted like a green racehorse, plunging over his jumps, tearing to the front of the field of riders."Synonyms: callow, experienceless, inexperienced, unexperienced, fresh, green, new, pupfiguratively

3. (politics, sometimes capitalized) Islamist.Examples: "In its most extreme formulation, this vision has devolved into a caricature of Islam as the "Green Peril" (green is the colour of Islam) advancing across the world stage, an image that echoes both the "Red Menace" of Cold War discourse and anti-Asian polemics about the "Yellow Peril"."; "Some politicians tried to encourage this replacement of the red with a green menace."; "While Bill Clinton struggled during the 1990s to bring order to a chaotic world increasingly wracked by ethnic and religious conflict, critics detected signs that a new "green" threat - radical Islam - was supplanting the earlier "red threat" - international communism - that had kept every president from Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan awake at night."capitalizedsometimes

4. (figurative) Full of life and vigour; fresh and vigorous; new; recent; young.Examples: "a green manhood"; "a green wound"; "as valid against such an old and beneficent government as against […] the greenest usurpation"Synonyms: new, all-new, brand new, brand spanking new, cherry, fresh, freshly made, greenfiguratively

5. (figurative, of people) Naive or unaware of obvious facts.Synonyms: gullible, credulous, green, naive, fleeceable, naif, born yesterday, fresh off the boatfiguratively

6. (figurative, of people) Overcome with envy.Examples: "He was green with envy."Synonyms: enviousfiguratively

1. (transitive) To make or turn (something) green or greener.Examples: "Great spring before greened all the year."; "Out of that tub had come the day before—Tess felt it with a dreadful sting of remorse - the very white frock upon her back which she had so carelessly greened about the skirt on the damping grass - which had been wrung up and ironed by her mother's own hands."transitive

2. (transitive) To add greenspaces to (a town, etc.).Examples: "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."transitive

3. (intransitive) To become environmentally aware.intransitive

4. (transitive) To make (something) environmentally friendly.Examples: ""The SNP like to talk the talk about net zero targets, but they can't walk the walk. We need a fares freeze for everyone if we want to get serious about greening the economy and a public railway run in the public interest.""Synonyms: engreentransitive

1. (BDSM, procedure word) Used to indicate that the speaker wishes to commence (or to continue a previously stopped) sexual activity.

1. (Oxford University, informal, historical) Ellipsis of Green College, Oxford.abbreviationalt-ofcountableellipsishistoricalinformaluncountable

1. (politics) Of, or pertaining, to a Green Party or green party.not-comparable