Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Jealous.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having green eyes.
- Figuratively, having the mental perception disturbed, as by passion, especially by jealousy; seeing all things discolored or distorted.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having green eyes.
- adj. Seeing everything under the influence of emotions which discolor or distort.
- adj. suspicious or unduly suspicious or fearful of being displaced by a rival.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. suspicious or unduly suspicious or fearful of being displaced by a rival
Examples
“Before he completes his heroic cycle, Obama will confront green-eyed seductresses, Sirens, blind seers, lotus-eaters, the “ghosts” of the underworld, the God-guide Hermes, and about a half-dozen sundry “demons.””
“The latest cause of his discontent was Marjorie Severyns, a striking twenty-five-year-old green-eyed brunette from Yakima County, Washington.”
“Wright: I have no problem playing the green-eyed monster.”
General Hospital's Laura Wright Previews the Carly-Brenda Smack Down
“Then a gorgeous green-eyed girl slipped in, closing the door behind her.”
“When green-eyed, Jewish Mormon girlElla, daughter of Joanna Brooksasks, What am I, this will be heranswer:”
“I feel myself about to go off, feeling the green-eyed monster rearing its ugly head.”
“Still, I decide to stroke the green-eyed monster, soothe its raging spirit.”
“One mom who can't quite reconcile Connie's brown skin and black hair with my green-eyed blonde complexion asks indiscreetly, “Peruvian adoption?” to which I simply nod instead of asking, “Fertility treatments?” about the squalling brood in her triple-wide stroller.”
““Tell me, you green-eyed whelp,” he whispered, leaning down.”
“Hap was halfway through an old document in a forgotten language from a faraway land, which told of a seldom seen, mischievous green-eyed people, when Umber lowered the notebook from his face to reveal a solemn gaze.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘green-eyed’.
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eye phrases
eye appeal, eye-apple, eye-area, eye-baby, eye bank, eye-bar, eye-bath, eye-bedewing, eye-beguiling, eye-bewildering, eye-bewitching, eye-black and 320 more...
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EN - compound adjectives ending in "-ed"
one-armed, strong-armed, red-bearded, wide-bodied, bare-breasted, double-breasted, black-eyed, dark-eyed, green-eyed, pop-eyed, red-eyed, slit-eyed and 211 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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See, The Eyes Have It
List of words (or phrases) containing eye-, -eye-, or -eye. Beginning with red-eye and eyebright.
I've since begun adding other more oblique terms that lack the string -eye-, but that...red-eye, eyebright, arguw-eye, bigeye, bird's-eye, buckeye, blarneyed, wheyey, eyebrow, eyecup, eyedropper, eyeful and 296 more...
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Open List: Greens
A lits of greens: cooked leafy vegetables; pigments, paint names, compound words, etc; words and phrases that pertain to or contain "green". Please add your favorites!
See this list f...greenery, collard greens, mustard greens, turnip greens, green shoots, viridian green, malachite green, sap green, green grocer, radish greens, beet greens, spring green and 282 more...
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EN - compound adjectives
Adjectively used nominal phrases with a "-" inside.
O-ring, B-grade, t-test, so-called, on-site, at-large, in-your-face, in-state, on-time, up-to-the-minute, in-store, on-call and 965 more...
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green phrases/ words
green,how its used
green acres, green activist, green alder, green-and-gold, green and pale, green and wan, green anole, green apron, green architecture, green arrow, green ash, green audit and 393 more...
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EN - compound body adjectives
one-armed, strong-armed, red-bearded, wide-bodied, bare-breasted, double-breasted, black-eyed, dark-eyed, green-eyed, pop-eyed, red-eyed, slit-eyed and 27 more...
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Colour my Wordie!
Words and short phrases with colour names in them
blackguard, black box, black market, blue moon, blue-collar worker, true-blue, blue-blooded, pink slip, tickled pink, pink elephant, white elephant, white gold and 81 more...
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Adjectives
tragematopolist, pulveratricious, selcouth, dastardly, occult, hermetic, arcane, lambent, nymph, lilliputian, anthropomorphous, anthropomorphic and 71 more...
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