umbrageous

[uhm-brey-juhs]

adjective

1. creating or providing shade; shady.

   an umbrageous tree.

2. apt to take offense.

umbrageous

/ ʌmˈbreɪdʒəs /

adjective

1. shady or shading

Other Word Forms

• umbrageously adverb
• umbrageousness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of umbrageous¹

First recorded in 1580–90; umbrage + -ous

Example Sentences

Rich land is scarce in Kerm, and a Domain’s pride is in the length of its borders, and the lords of Kerm Land are proud men and umbrageous men, casting black shadows.

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Below-decks, we formed as best we could in straitened space and umbrageous darkness.

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“It aims at the palatial and attains the sham-palatial,” the anonymous reviewer wrote, describing the projecting cornice as “huge, umbrageous, unmeaning, irrelevant” and characteristic “of the cheapest and vulgarest kind of tenement houses.”

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In Sikkim the mountains are covered with dense forest of tall umbrageous trees, commonly accompanied by a luxuriant growth of under shrubs, and adorned with climbing and epiphytal plants in wonderful profusion.

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Thick umbrageous forests gave it a character of gloom and wildness; but a gushing stream of limpid water which ran through it was sufficient to redeem every disadvantage.

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