verdant
[vur-dnt]
- green with vegetation; covered with growing plants or grass: a verdant oasis.
- of the color green: a verdant lawn.
- inexperienced; unsophisticated: verdant college freshmen.
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Origin of verdant
Synonyms
See more synonyms for verdant on Thesaurus.com1. lush, grassy.
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Wearily did he pass some of his time amidst the verdancy of the woods.
The Hunted OutlawAnonymous
He shook his head sorrowfully, for I think the verdancy of my youth appealed to him.
A Tatter of ScarletS. R. Crockett
But the girls either denied the verdancy, or, if they admitted the charge in part, maintained it was an added excellence.
Mr. Claghorn's DaughterHilary Trent
The garden is a bath of verdancy and coolness even upon the most torrid day.
Romance of Roman VillasElizabeth W. (Elizbeth Williams) Champney
Thus the term "adobe," the sun-dried brick, as applied to a man, signifies vealiness and verdancy.
verdant
- covered with green vegetation
- (of plants, etc) green in colour
- immature or unsophisticated; green
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Word Origin
C16: from Old French verdoyant, from verdoyer to become green, from Old French verd green, from Latin viridis, from virēre to be green
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Word Origin and History for verdancy
verdant
adj.
1580s, "green," from Middle French virdeant "becoming green," present participle of Old French verdeiier "become green," from Vulgar Latin *viridiare "grow green, make green," from Latin viridis "green" (see verdure). Related: Verdantly.
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