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vihreä — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • callow adj Immature, inexperienced, or naive.
  • green adj Having the colour of growing grass or leaves.
  • raw adjective Not cooked.
  • verdant adj Green in colour.
  • vert noun In heraldry, the colour green, traditionally shown in engravings as diagonal lines.
  • white adj Reflecting all wavelengths of visible light equally; having the colour 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

  1. adj Immature, inexperienced, or naive.
  2. adj Having no hair; bald, bare, hairless.
  3. adj Of a brick: unburnt.
  4. adj Of a young bird, or (part of) its body: having not developed feathers yet; featherless, unfledged; hence, of other animals or their bodies: having no fur or hair; furless, hairless, unfurred.

green — full definition

  1. adj Having the colour of growing grass or leaves.
  2. adj Inexperienced or naive.
  3. adj Concerned with protecting the environment.
  4. noun The colour itself, or an area of grass, especially on a golf course.
  5. verb To make something more environmentally friendly.

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