vihreä — meaning in English
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English meaning
- callow adj Young and lacking experience of life.
- green adj Having the color of growing grass or leaves.
- raw adjective Not cooked.
- verdant adj Colored green.
- vert noun In heraldry, the color green, traditionally shown in engravings as diagonal lines.
- white adj Reflecting all wavelengths of visible light equally; having the color of snow or milk.
Senses
vihreä is used for these senses in English:
- callow (figurative) Lacking life experience; immature, inexperienced, naive; also, of or relating to something immature or inexperienced.
- green (figurative, of people) Sickly, unwell.
- green Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen.
- green (figurative) Inexperienced.
- raw New or inexperienced. [from 16th c.]
- verdant Fresh.
- vert (tincture) In blazon, of the colour green.
- vert (tincture) A green colour, now only in heraldry; represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees counter-clockwise.
callow — full definition
- adj Young and lacking experience of life.
- adj (archaic) Without any hair; bald.
- adj (of a brick) Not yet fired in a kiln.
- adj Describes a young bird that has not grown its feathers yet, or, more widely, a young animal still without fur.
green — full definition
- adj Having the color of growing grass or leaves.
- adj Inexperienced or naive.
- adj Concerned with protecting the environment.
- noun The color itself, or an area of grass, especially on a golf course.
- verb To make something more environmentally friendly.
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