green
adjective
of the color of growing foliage, between yellow and blue in the spectrum.
greenest
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superlativeof green.superlative
The form of an adjective or adverb indicating the greatest degree of a quality.
Example Sentences
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It ranges from the greenest to the dirtiest, from established technologies to speculative ones, and even includes companies that play tangential roles in the sector.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025
Rather, it reflects a 21st-century understanding of the environmental movement, one that recognizes that an existing neighborhood is the greenest place for housing to be built.
From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2025
Despite the greenest possible light, at least one of his 93 NBA field-goal attempts have had to cross Knecht’s “crazy or something like that” threshold, right?
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2024
We had flown to Kumasi to visit the Department of Painting and Sculpture at KNUST, an expansive campus in the west of the city and probably the greenest university I have ever seen.
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2024
Plus, I had the advantage of knowing the exact location of the greenest patch of wild parsley.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
