adjective
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covered with green vegetation
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(of plants, etc) green in colour
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immature or unsophisticated; green
Other Word Forms
- unverdant adjective
- unverdantly adverb
- verdancy noun
- verdantly adverb
Etymology
Origin of verdant
Explanation
When something is green with plant life it's verdant, a word often used to idealize the countryside with its verdant pastures or verdant hills. Here's a trick for internalizing verdant's meaning: If you speak Spanish, think of verde — meaning "green." If you speak French, think of vert. Both French and Spanish inherited their words for green from Latin, in which green is viridis. Verdant also can mean grass-colored: "She wore a dress of verdant green."
Vocabulary lists containing verdant
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Example Sentences
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But most beat it back to the city without venturing to neighboring Colares, a verdant region of cypress and eucalyptus, with a generous supply of fruit stands and antique shops, gradually sloping to lesser-known beaches.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
Casting its relentless sunshine as a background character, coaxing neighbors out of their shells and into verdant parks and yards and onto their manicured streets, is part of that.
From Salon • Feb. 7, 2026
The acreage includes verdant fields, a lily pond, and mature trees.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 9, 2025
Uruapan, a city of more than 300,000, is situated in the verdant hills of Michoacán, where most of Mexico’s avocados are grown.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2025
The world was a verdant blur of color all around her—hues of deep green colliding with browns and blacks, and the occasional pink or yellow.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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