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umbrageous

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15
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20
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10
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/ʌmˈbɹeɪdʒəs/ (UK)

Definition of umbrageous

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Having or providing shade; shady.
    “[…] What tho' his Forests wave / Umbrageous to the Gale, and Nature walks / In loose Luxuriance o'er his native Plains; / Those Forests wave, those Plains delight no more; / […]”
    “Not a single one of those "umbrageous trees," of which our Mayor declaimed so feelingly, has yet been planted; […] They should protest against his withdrawal from that station, until the banks of the Monongahela and Duquesne Way are once more covered with "umbrageous trees," […]”
    “... without which the stem could not have supported its heavy and umbrageous top.”
    “Rhodes gazed wistfully into the dense umbrageous tangle whence his host had disappeared.”
    “Not far away was the bank of a canal, bordered by a magnificent avenue shaded by a double row of immense umbrageous trees.”
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adj

  1. Having or providing shade; shady.
    “[…] What tho' his Forests wave / Umbrageous to the Gale, and Nature walks / In loose Luxuriance o'er his native Plains; / Those Forests wave, those Plains delight no more; / […]”
    “Not a single one of those "umbrageous trees," of which our Mayor declaimed so feelingly, has yet been planted; […] They should protest against his withdrawal from that station, until the banks of the Monongahela and Duquesne Way are once more covered with "umbrageous trees," […]”
    “... without which the stem could not have supported its heavy and umbrageous top.”
    “Rhodes gazed wistfully into the dense umbrageous tangle whence his host had disappeared.”
    “Not far away was the bank of a canal, bordered by a magnificent avenue shaded by a double row of immense umbrageous trees.”
  2. (figuratively)Irritable, easily upset.

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Etymology

From Middle French ombrageux, or from umbrage + -ous.

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