Meaning

(uncommon) Not green..

Definitions by Sense

1. (uncommon) Not green.
2. Having little or no vegetation or plant matter.
3. Lacking sap or vitality; desiccated.
4. Environmentally unfriendly; harmful to or inconsiderate of the environment.
5. (dyeing) To expose to air after dyeing in indigo so that the greenish color fades away.
6. To make or become familiar with and adept in handling a new environment.
7. To change from green to some other color, as occurs with leaves in the autumn.
8. To urbanize or become less environmentally friendly.

Example Sentences

The ungreen emerald ring went round and round, and the ungreen emerald earrings swung: Thelma was working at the rim of her glass, too.

The ungreen virescent exhibits a low rate of true photosynthesis (on both a leaf fresh weight and chlorophyll basis) compared to wild-type.

Adam is also a member of the class of ungreen things, and by virtue of being ungreen can be an icon for ungreen things. But a poet who wanted to talk about ungreenness would have to take special pains to get us to notice that Adam was ungreen.

This clearly demonstrates the problem of multivalence because ungreen colors are many.

It is funny for the seaside, it looks such a “house-ified' place, it's an ungreen seaside.

The same article includes a recipe for a rather ungreen salad: Salad of mixed meat

More popular with visiting schoolchildren than tourists, the arboretum is worth a visit for anyone craving greenery in this ungreen city.

Later on Jerusalem would thread its enchantment and I would fall to its allure, but at first all I saw—despite the forest—was a dusty, ungreen, and unwatered land, the dry Judean hills stretching away toward the Dead Sea, whose dark dullness we could glimpse from viewpoints in the neighborhood.

Word Forms

• ungreens
• ungreening
• ungreened

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