ungreen
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not green.
adj
Having little or no vegetation or plant matter.
adj
Lacking sap or vitality; desiccated.
adj
Environmentally unfriendly; harmful to or inconsiderate of the environment.
verb
Example Sentences
- "The ungreen emerald ring went round and round, and the ungreen emerald earrings swung: Thelma was working at the rim of her glass, too."
- "The ungreen virescent exhibits a low rate of true photosynthesis (on both a leaf fresh weight and chlorophyll basis) compared to wild-type."
- "Adam is also a member of the class of ungreen things, and by virtue of being ungreen can be an icon for ungreen things. But a poet who wanted to talk about ungreenness would have to take special pains to get us to notice that Adam was ungreen."
- "This clearly demonstrates the problem of multivalence because ungreen colors are many."
- "It is funny for the seaside, it looks such a “house-ified' place, it's an ungreen seaside."
- "The same article includes a recipe for a rather ungreen salad: Salad of mixed meat"
Etymology
From Middle English ungrene, from Old English ungrēne (“not green”), from Proto-West Germanic *ungrōnī (“not green”), equivalent to un- + green. Compare West Frisian ûngrien (“ungreen”), Dutch ongroen (“ungreen”), German ungrün (“not green”), Danish ugrøn (“ungreen”), Swedish ogrön (“ungreen”), Icelandic ógræn (“ungreen”).