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umbrageous
[ uhm-brey-juhs ]
adjective
- creating or providing shade; shady:
an umbrageous tree.
- apt to take offense.
umbrageous
/ ʌmˈbreɪdʒəs /
adjective
- shady or shading
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Derived Forms
- umˈbrageousness, noun
- umˈbrageously, adverb
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Other Words From
- um·brageous·ly adverb
- um·brageous·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of umbrageous1
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Example Sentences
A garden with umbrageous trees Is here for you to take your ease.
Here, in a deep umbrageous valley, traversed by a limpid stream, the thirteen pioneers built a house little better than a barn.
In short, they were just natural buttresses, without which the stem could not have supported its heavy and umbrageous top.
They were in Arcady, but deprived of its ancient privilege of sylvan and umbrageous solitude.
His walls are not wainscoted, and there is about his house no umbrageous park nor verdant lawn.
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