Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Green with vegetation; covered with green growth.
- adj. Green.
- adj. Lacking experience or sophistication; naive.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Green; fresh; covered with growing plants or grass: as, verdant fields; a verdant lawn.
- Green in knowledge; simple by reason of inexperience; inexperienced; unsophisticated; raw; green.
Wiktionary
- adj. Green in colour.
- adj. Abundant in verdure.
- adj. Fresh.
- adj. Inexperienced.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Covered with growing plants or grass; green; fresh; flourishing.
- adj. Unripe in knowledge or judgment; unsophisticated; raw; green.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. characterized by abundance of verdure
Etymologies
- French verdoyant, from Old French, present participle of verdoyer, to become green, from Vulgar Latin *viridiāre, from Latin viridis.
Examples
“The scenery is luxuriant because San Pancho is surrounded by the Sierra Madre Mountains, covered in verdant foliage.”
“Only then do we move to Kashmir, setting of Shalimar itself — Shalimar being the ancient name for "the great Mughal garden … descending in verdant liquid terraces to a shining lake.”
“While the word verdant came to English directly from Latin in the late 1500s,”
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“To me the word verdant brings images of lush vegetation.”
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“A listener named Ross reports that he has observed the use of the word verdant as a sort of formal synonym to "green" or "environmentally responsible.”
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“For its entire existence in English verdant has meant the green of plants.”
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“The idea that fresh foliage as an analogy to lack of sophistication was applied by the early 1800s to the word verdant as well and then in 1853 an author named Edward Bradley, writing under the pen name Cuthbert Bede used both words to name the chief character in his book An Oxford Freshman.”
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“This really was like a dream for us," says Mr. S á enz, recalling a verdant path that would be carved from the adjacent playground into a hillside behind it.”
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“We made but a short stay at "Little England," as the Barbadians fondly call their verdant plat, and then ran down through all the Virgin”
“Boiled Leg of Lamb serves with cauliflower on a "verdant" bed of spinach”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘verdant’.
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For Summer
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Favorite Words
Fun words that are interesting and arresting.
Ort, unctuous, panoply, defenestrate, palpable, ubiquitous, flagellate, serendipitous, epiphanic, constructivist, amuse bouche, sobriquet and 30 more...
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Words I Intend to use.
selectarian, solastalgia, niefling, eldritch, santagnostic, laborious, obstreperous, quibble, inusitate, cacology, tmesis, cacoethes and 50 more...
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colors!
xanthous, rubicund, arsigont, aubergine, caerulean, cerise, parti-colored, bay, verdant, empurple, vermilion, paris green and 1 more...
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Random Words
Words that strike me but aren't quite categorize-able.
dgstone I only wish to expand on the connotation that this word carries for me. I use it to refer to a vegetative landscape in a light spring or summer shower. The plants look gorgeous and lush because the the central vacuole is swollen with water. Mar 13, 2008
victoriapl green with vegetation; covered with growing plants or grass Dec 1, 2007