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

Derived Forms

• umˈbrageously, adverb
• umˈbrageousness, noun

Other Words From

• um·brageous·ly adverb
• um·brageous·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of umbrageous¹

First recorded in 1580–90; umbrage + -ous

Example Sentences

A garden with umbrageous trees Is here for you to take your ease.

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Here, in a deep umbrageous valley, traversed by a limpid stream, the thirteen pioneers built a house little better than a barn.

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In short, they were just natural buttresses, without which the stem could not have supported its heavy and umbrageous top.

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They were in Arcady, but deprived of its ancient privilege of sylvan and umbrageous solitude.

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His walls are not wainscoted, and there is about his house no umbrageous park nor verdant lawn.

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