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View synonyms for verdant

verdant

[ vur-dnt ]

adjective

  1. green with vegetation; covered with growing plants or grass:

    a verdant oasis.

    Synonyms: grassy, lush

  2. of the color green:

    a verdant lawn.

  3. inexperienced; unsophisticated:

    verdant college freshmen.



verdant

/ ˈvɜːdənt /

adjective

  1. covered with green vegetation
  2. (of plants, etc) green in colour
  3. immature or unsophisticated; green
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈverdancy, noun
  • ˈverdantly, adverb
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Other Words From

  • verdan·cy noun
  • verdant·ly adverb
  • un·verdant adjective
  • un·verdant·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of verdant1

First recorded in 1575–85; verd(ure) + -ant
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Word History and Origins

Origin of verdant1

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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Example Sentences

Nestled in the verdant backwoods of the Chattahoochee National Forest, this drive really comes alive in October, when fall colors are at their peak.

Its verdant, mountain-ringed valleys, dotted with colorful huts and temples, are ideal for trekkers or anyone searching for a cure for screen-weary eyes.

From Ozy

This twin-chamber design is able to hold 162 liters of organic material to give you verdant soil in just 10 to 12 weeks.

Trees can often appear as little more than verdant wallpaper, a fuzzy green background for humans’ comings and goings.

When you imagine a dinosaur’s habitat like that you would see in Jurassic Park, a hot and humid spot filled with verdant greenery might come to mind.

A jacket resembled a verdant forest with its beautiful chaos of green feathers.

It was a typical suburban dwelling with a verdant lawn and lots of flowering shrubs.

What better way to celebrate spring than with a verdant bowl of budding goodness?

The studio had disappeared under the verdant arbor, while a wonderful spangled tree rose like a fairy dream, in one corner.

Thoughts ran on rhythmically, in the steady, flashing movement through verdant England.

The last sighs of a man will weave the brilliant corolla of a flower, or expand like a smile over the verdant meadow.

Like the swallow, it has left a crumbling ruin to seek a purer air and a more verdant world.

Even though these Havens are located in the most barren places, they are beauty-spots, verdant beyond belief.

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