" green "

1: covered with a thick, healthy natural growth;

  * e.g., " ... fields green with meadow grass "

•  Synonyms : 

•  grown,

•  leafy,

•  lush,

•  luxuriant,

•  overgrown,

•  verdant

•  Antonyms : 

•  barren,

•  leafless

2: lacking in adult experience or maturity;

  * e.g., " ... a new pitcher who's pretty green, even by rookie standards "

•  Synonyms : 

•  adolescent,

•  callow,

•  immature,

•  inexperienced,

•  juvenile,

•  puerile,

•  raw,

•  unfledged,

•  unformed,

•  unripe,

•  unripened

•  Antonyms : 

•  adult,

•  experienced,

•  grown-up,

•  mature,

•  ripe

3: lacking in worldly wisdom or informed judgment;

  * e.g., " ... in spite of her age, she's still green enough to be hoodwinked by fast-talking scammers "

•  Synonyms : 

•  aw-shucks,

•  dewy,

•  dewy-eyed,

•  ingenuous,

•  innocent,

•  naïf,

•  naive,

•  primitive,

•  simple,

•  simpleminded,

•  uncritical,

•  unknowing,

•  unsophisticated,

•  unsuspecting,

•  unsuspicious,

•  unwary,

•  unworldly,

•  wide-eyed

•  Antonyms : 

•  cosmopolitan,

•  experienced,

•  knowing,

•  sophisticated,

•  worldly,

•  worldly-wise

1: having or showing mean resentment of another's possessions or advantages;

  * e.g., " ... an anonymous online review of the restaurant that looks like it may have been written by a green-eyed competitor "

•  Synonyms : 

•  covetous,

•  envious,

•  invidious,

•  jaundiced,

•  jealous,

•  resentful

•  Antonyms : 

•  unenvious

1: green leaves or plants;

  * e.g., " ... the lonely soldier dreamt of the fields of green that he had wandered in as a youth "

•  Synonyms : 

•  flora,

•  foliage,

•  greenery,

•  herbage,

•  leafage,

•  vegetation,

•  verdure

•  Antonyms : 

• (N/A)

2: something (as pieces of stamped metal or printed paper) customarily and legally used as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, or a means of payment;

  * e.g., " ... I need to save up some green before I can afford that cruise "

•  Synonyms : 

•  bread,

•  bucks,

•  cabbage,

•  cash,

•  change,

•  chips,

•  coin,

•  currency,

•  dough,

•  gold,

•  jack,

•  kale,

•  legal tender,

•  lolly,

•  long green,

•  loot,

•  lucre,

•  money,

•  moola,

•  needful,

•  pelf,

•  scratch,

•  shekels,

•  tender,

•  wampum

•  Antonyms : 

• (N/A)

1: as in garter snake, diamondback rattlesnake;

•  Synonyms : 

•  adder,

•  anaconda,

•  asp,

•  black racer,

•  blacksnake,

•  blue racer,

•  boa,

•  bull snake,

•  bushmaster,

•  chicken snake,

•  cobra,

•  constrictor,

•  copperhead,

•  coral snake,

•  cottonmouth moccasin,

•  diamondback rattlesnake,

•  fer-de-lance,

•  garter snake,

•  gopher snake,

•  hognose snake,

•  horned viper,

•  indigo snake,

•  king cobra,

•  king snake,

•  krait,

•  mamba,

•  milk snake,

•  moccasin,

•  pine snake,

•  pit viper,

•  puff adder,

•  python,

•  racer,

•  rat snake,

•  rattlesnake,

•  sea serpent,

•  sea snake,

•  sidewinder,

•  taipan,

•  water moccasin,

•  water snake,

•  worm snake,

•  serpent,

•  snake,

•  viper

•  Antonyms : 

• (N/A)

1: as in garter snakes, diamondback rattlesnakes;

•  Synonyms : 

•  adders,

•  anacondas,

•  asps,

•  black racers,

•  blacksnakes,

•  blue racers,

•  boas,

•  bull snakes,

•  bushmasters,

•  chicken snakes,

•  cobras,

•  constrictors,

•  copperheads,

•  coral snakes,

•  cottonmouth moccasins,

•  diamondback rattlesnakes,

•  fer-de-lance,

•  garter snakes,

•  gopher snakes,

•  hognose snakes,

•  horned vipers,

•  indigo snakes,

•  king cobras,

•  king snakes,

•  kraits,

•  mambas,

•  milk snakes,

•  moccasins,

•  pine snakes,

•  pit vipers,

•  puff adders,

•  pythons,

•  racers,

•  rat snakes,

•  rattlesnakes,

•  sea serpents,

•  sea snakes,

•  sidewinders,

•  taipans,

•  water moccasins,

•  water snakes,

•  worm snakes,

•  serpents,

•  snakes,

•  vipers

•  Antonyms : 

• (N/A)

1: a painful awareness of another's possessions or advantages and a desire to have them too;

  * e.g., " ... the green-eyed monster dogged her whenever she visited her wealthy sister "

•  Synonyms : 

•  covetousness,

•  enviousness,

•  envy,

•  invidiousness,

•  jealousy,

•  resentment

•  Antonyms : 

• (N/A)

1: the approval by someone in authority for the doing of something;

  * e.g., " ... we were given the green light to use the town commons for our fund-raiser "

•  Synonyms : 

•  allowance,

•  authorization,

•  clearance,

•  concurrence,

•  consent,

•  granting,

•  leave,

•  license,

•  permission,

•  sanction,

•  sufferance,

•  warrant

•  Antonyms : 

•  interdiction,

•  prohibition,

•  proscription

1: to give permission for or to approve of;

  * e.g., " ... as soon as the project is green-lighted, we'll schedule a planning meeting "

•  Synonyms : 

•  allow,

•  have,

•  permit,

•  suffer

•  Antonyms : 

•  ban,

•  enjoin,

•  forbid,

•  prohibit,

•  proscribe,

•  veto

1: to give permission for or to approve of;

  * e.g., " ... as soon as the project is green-lighted, we'll schedule a planning meeting "

•  Synonyms : 

•  allowed,

•  had,

•  permitted,

•  suffered

•  Antonyms : 

•  banned,

•  enjoined,

•  forbade,

•  prohibited,

•  proscribed,

•  vetoed

1: having or showing mean resentment of another's possessions or advantages;

  * e.g., " ... She was green with envy when her rival took home the gold. "

•  Synonyms : 

•  covetous,

•  envious,

•  green-eyed,

•  invidious,

•  jaundiced,

•  jealous,

•  resentful

•  Antonyms : 

•  unenvious