1. Of the colour between blue and yellow in the colour spectrum; similar to the colour of fresh grass
   "a green tree"; "green fields"; "green paint"; "a light-green tree"; "a dark-green tree";
   - greenish, light-green, dark-green, greeny
    
2. Not damaging to the environment, or directed at preventing environmental damage
   "They switched to green cleaning products in their office";
   - environmentally-friendly, eco-friendly
    
3. Good for the environment
   "The company implemented several green initiatives to reduce its carbon footprint"
    
4. Concerned with, supporting or in conformity with the political principles of the Green Party
   "The candidate's green policies focused on environmental protection and sustainable energy"
    
5. Not fully developed or mature; not ripe
   "fried green tomatoes"; "green wood";
   - unripe, unripened, immature
    
6. [informal] Lacking practical experience or training
   "The students poked fun at the green teacher";
   - inexperienced, inexperient [non-standard]
    
7. Naive and easily deceived or tricked
   "at that early age she had been green and in love";
   - fleeceable [informal], gullible
    
8. Looking pale and unhealthy
   "you're looking green"; "green around the gills"

1. Green colour or pigment; resembling the colour of growing grass
   "The green of the spring leaves was a welcome sight after winter";
   - greenness, viridity
    
2. Any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables
   "She prepared a side dish of sautéed mixed greens";
   - greens, leafy vegetable
    
3. An area of closely cropped grass surrounding the hole on a golf course
   "the ball rolled across the green and into the bunker";
   - putting green, putting surface
    
4. A piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area
   "Children played soccer on the village green";
   - park, commons, common

1. Turn or become green
   "The trees are greening"

1. United States labour leader who was president of the American Federation of Labor from 1924 to 1952 and who led the struggle with the Congress of Industrial Organizations (1873-1952)
   - William Green
    
2. A river that rises in western Wyoming and flows southward through Utah to become a tributary of the Colorado River
   - Green River
    
3. An environmentalist who belongs to the Green Party

Sounds like: grease, Grereen, Gr

Derived forms: greenest, Greens, greener, greened, greens, greening

See also: callow, chromatic, fledgling, good, ill, naif, naïf, naive, naïve, new, raw, sick, unaged, unfledged, uninitiate, uninitiated, unpracticed [N. Amer], unpractised [Brit, Cdn], unseasoned, unskilled, untested, untried, unversed, wet behind the ears, young

Type of: chromatic color [US], chromatic colour [Brit, Cdn], color [US], colour [Brit, Cdn], conservationist, discolor [US], discolour [Brit, Cdn], eco-warrior [informal], enviro [informal], environmentalist, labor leader [US], labour leader [Brit, Cdn], land site, parcel, parcel of land, piece of ground, piece of land, river, site, spectral color [US], spectral colour [Brit, Cdn], tract, veg [Brit, informal], vegetable, veggie [informal]

Antonym: mature

Part of: Beehive State, Equality State, golf course, Green Party, links course, Mormon State, populated area, urban area, UT, Ut., Utah, WY, Wyo., Wyoming

Encyclopedia: Green, Michelle