umbrageousadj.

Brit.

/ʌmˈbreɪdʒəs/,

/ˈʌmbrᵻdʒəs/, U.S.

/ˌəmˈbreɪdʒəs/,

/ˈəmbrᵻdʒəs/

Forms: Also 1500s vmbragious, 1600s–1700s umbragious, 1600s 1800s ombrageous ((), 1600s -ious ().).

Etymology: < French ombrageux (Old French also -eus ), < ombrage (see umbrage n.); or directly < umbrage n. + -ous suffix.

a. Forming or affording shade; shady.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > intercepting or cutting off of light > [adjective] > casting a shadow > overshadowing > affording shade

umbrosea1425

shadowing1552

umbrate?1553

shadeful1563

shady1579

shadinga1586

umbrageous1587

shadowy1607

umbriferous1616

umbratile1659

umbracious1839

adumbral1845

umbering1872

1587 A. Day Longus's Daphnis & Chloe sig. F4^v First ranne hee to the foot of a hie and vmbragious rocke.

1614 A. Gorges tr. Lucan Pharsalia ii. 63 Where these vmbragious mountaines stand.

1676 J. Evelyn Philos. Disc. Earth 93 Lastly, by shade Ground is render'd barren, and by the dripping of umbragious trees.

1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey II. vi. 149 Where the grove with leaves umbrageous bends, With forceful strength a branch the Heroe rends.

1790 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 80 351 Their tops are so very thick and umbrageous as to prevent even a very heavy rain from reaching the ground underneath.

1826 W. Scott Woodstock I. x. 257 The towers of Woodstock arose high above the umbrageous shroud which the forest spread around the..mansion.

1830 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. 55 A handsome umbrageous tree with a smooth bark, and shining leaves.

1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets x. 310 Oaks with their umbrageous foliage..belong to the forests of the North.

b. Abounding in shade; shaded by trees or the like; overshadowed.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > intercepting or cutting off of light > [adjective] > casting a shadow > overshadowed > lying in shade or abounding in shade

shadowy1398

shadowed1400

umbrous1480

shadowish1530

shadeful1563

shadowous1585

shady1589

umbrageous1622

shaded1635

swaly1820

adumbral1855

umbraged1890

1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xxii. 62 Those past times..When as that woody kind, in our umbrageous Wyld,..In this their world of wast, the souereigne Empire swayd.

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. iii. 81 A secure place of repose in a vmbragious Caue.

1666 G. Harvey Morbus Anglicus 215 Walk daily in a pleasant, airy, and umbragious Garden.

a1771 T. Gray Imit. Propertius in Wks. (1814) II. 85 Fast by the umbrageous vale lull'd to repose, Where Aganippe warbles as it flows.

1774 R. Cumberland in Westm. Mag. 2 148 No cooling Grottoes, no umbrageous Groves, To win the Graces, and allure the Loves.

1811 P. B. Shelley St. Irvyne xi. 211 The umbrageous loveliness of the surrounding country.

1846 N. Hawthorne Mosses i. i. 13 It makes us shiver to think of these deep umbrageous recesses.

1891 F. W. Farrar Darkness & Dawn II. lvi. 235 Everyone should wander at will about the green copses, and the umbrageous retreats.

c. Caused by thick foliage.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > intercepting or cutting off of light > [adjective] > casting a shadow > overshadowing > affording shade > of shade: caused by thick foliage

umbrageous1830

1830 J. G. Strutt Sylva Brit. (rev. ed.) 54 The religious Mahometans chose to pray under old trees,..piously believing that the holy men of former times had prayed and meditated under their umbrageous shade.

a1854 J. Wilson in C. Gibbon Casquet of Lit. (1896) V. 178/2 Dew and dreams dropping through their umbrageous twilight at eve or morn.

a. Of persons: Suspicious; jealous; apt or disposed to take offence.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > anger > indignation or resentment > [adjective] > characterized by or showing

wrothc1000

highOE

wrackfulc1230

indignant1590

snarling1599

umbrageous1601

indignatorya1624

resenting1634

resentful1656

affronted1663

bridling1673

begrudging1693

wrathy1873

α.

1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat 127 The inhabitants..partly by their forme of gouernment, whereby they are made vile, base and vmbragious, haue little valour or manhood left them.

1652 J. Wright tr. J.-P. Camus Nature's Paradox iii. Argt. 48 The King made jealous of the Queen, shee no less umbragious of him, and both for Iphigenes.

1758 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses (ed. 3) II. i. Pref. p. xvii Of which, doubtless, the Romans were very jealous, tho' not so extravagantly umbragious as our Critic's hypothesis obliges him to suppose.

1768 Bp. Hurd in Warburton's Lett. (1809) 425 Both susceptible of high passions in love and friendship; but, of the two, the Italian more constant, and less umbrageous.

1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece II. ii. vi. 503 The rural costume..which the Helot commonly wore, and the change of which exposed him to suspicion, if not to punishment, from his umbrageous masters.

1874 J. A. Symonds Sketches Italy & Greece (1898) I. vi. 107 The people are idle, haughty, umbrageous, fiery, quarrelsome [etc.].

β. 1623 J. Donne Serm. (1953) VI. 56 At the beginning some men were a little ombrageous, and startling at the name of the Fathers.1802 L. Hanson Accurate Hist. Acct. Orders of Knighthood Europe II. 306 Most punctilious with respect to forms and Ceremonies: and excessively ombrageous, with regard to the Non-observance of trivial points.

b. Of disposition or nature.

ΚΠ

1613 H. Wotton Let. 16 Nov. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 430 But lest you should mistake, as some others have been apt to do here, in the present constitution of the court (which is very ombragious).

1652 J. Wright tr. J.-P. Camus Nature's Paradox xii. 321 Let your rigour execute mee..all that your umbragious or Cholerick humour can suggest.

1667 G. Digby Elvira i. 2 What power, meer appearances, have had..to destroy With an umbragious nature, all that Love Was ever able..To found and to establish.

†3. Obscure; dubious. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > insecure knowledge, uncertainty > [adjective] > obscure, vague

cloudyc1400

indeterminatec1400

diffuse1430

diffused?1456

obscure?a1475

infinite1520

ambiguous1529

indistincta1530

nubilous1533

dark1557

undetermined1588

undefinite1589

undeterminate1603

indetermined1611

undefined1611

suspense1624

umbrageous1635

clouded1641

undeterminated1641

fuliginous1646

implicit1660

vague1690

diffusive1709

nubilose1730

foggy1737

unliquidated1780

hazy1781

indecisive1815

nebulous1817

penumbral1819

aoristic1846

scumbled1868

nubiform1873

out-of-focus1891

fuzzy1937

soft focus1938

1635 J. Reynolds Triumphs Gods Revenge (new ed.) iii. xiii. 256 That there was none other present but himselfe when his Master De Merson was murthered, it is umbragious, and leaves a..sting of suspition in their heads.

a1649 W. Drummond Hist. James II in Wks. (1711) 24 By umbragious Ways he nourished Discontentments in all Parts of the Country.

1651 H. L'Estrange Answer Marques of Worcester's Paper 61 We blesse God for the light they had, though umbrageous and clouded, yet was it such as discovered the nakednesse and shame of the Church of Rome.

Derivatives

umˈbrageously adv.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > means of concealment > [adverb]

under covert1477

cloakedlya1500

disguisedly1631

umbrageouslya1649

incognito1649

wrappingly1649

incog1709

the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > intercepting or cutting off of light > [adverb] > affording shade

umbrageously1836

umbriferously1884

a1649 W. Drummond Wks. (1711) 175 He had Intention to bring Novations into our Religion; tending umbrageously, and under a Mask, to the Introduction of Popery.

1836 W. H. Ainsworth Rookwood (rev. ed.) i. i. 10 One tree..out-flings..its arms umbrageously.

umˈbrageousness n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > intercepting or cutting off of light > [noun] > casting of a shadow > overshadowing > shadiness

shadiness1611

umbrageousness1614

umbrosity1646

umbraciousness1661

umbriferousness1727

1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. i. iv. §3. 69 The exceeding vmbragiousnesse of this tree he compareth to the darke and shadowed life of man.

1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. at Shadiness Umbrageousness.

1823 Examiner 106/2 Trees..spreading sideways with Asiatic grace and umbrageousness.

1837 Blackwood's Mag. 41 512 A face incapable of a blush, partly from the umbrageousness of the whiskers.

1871 Daily News 28 July The familiar umbrageousness of Croydon.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	umbrageous
释义	umbrageousadj. Brit. /ʌmˈbreɪdʒəs/, /ˈʌmbrᵻdʒəs/, U.S. /ˌəmˈbreɪdʒəs/, /ˈəmbrᵻdʒəs/ Forms: Also 1500s vmbragious, 1600s–1700s umbragious, 1600s 1800s ombrageous ((), 1600s -ious ().). Etymology: < French ombrageux (Old French also -eus ), < ombrage (see umbrage n.); or directly < umbrage n. + -ous suffix. 1. a. Forming or affording shade; shady. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > intercepting or cutting off of light > [adjective] > casting a shadow > overshadowing > affording shade umbrosea1425 shadowing1552 umbrate?1553 shadeful1563 shady1579 shadinga1586 umbrageous1587 shadowy1607 umbriferous1616 umbratile1659 umbracious1839 adumbral1845 umbering1872 1587 A. Day Longus's Daphnis & Chloe sig. F4^v First ranne hee to the foot of a hie and vmbragious rocke. 1614 A. Gorges tr. Lucan Pharsalia ii. 63 Where these vmbragious mountaines stand. 1676 J. Evelyn Philos. Disc. Earth 93 Lastly, by shade Ground is render'd barren, and by the dripping of umbragious trees. 1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey II. vi. 149 Where the grove with leaves umbrageous bends, With forceful strength a branch the Heroe rends. 1790 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 80 351 Their tops are so very thick and umbrageous as to prevent even a very heavy rain from reaching the ground underneath. 1826 W. Scott Woodstock I. x. 257 The towers of Woodstock arose high above the umbrageous shroud which the forest spread around the..mansion. 1830 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. 55 A handsome umbrageous tree with a smooth bark, and shining leaves. 1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets x. 310 Oaks with their umbrageous foliage..belong to the forests of the North. b. Abounding in shade; shaded by trees or the like; overshadowed. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > intercepting or cutting off of light > [adjective] > casting a shadow > overshadowed > lying in shade or abounding in shade shadowy1398 shadowed1400 umbrous1480 shadowish1530 shadeful1563 shadowous1585 shady1589 umbrageous1622 shaded1635 swaly1820 adumbral1855 umbraged1890 1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xxii. 62 Those past times..When as that woody kind, in our umbrageous Wyld,..In this their world of wast, the souereigne Empire swayd. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. iii. 81 A secure place of repose in a vmbragious Caue. 1666 G. Harvey Morbus Anglicus 215 Walk daily in a pleasant, airy, and umbragious Garden. a1771 T. Gray Imit. Propertius in Wks. (1814) II. 85 Fast by the umbrageous vale lull'd to repose, Where Aganippe warbles as it flows. 1774 R. Cumberland in Westm. Mag. 2 148 No cooling Grottoes, no umbrageous Groves, To win the Graces, and allure the Loves. 1811 P. B. Shelley St. Irvyne xi. 211 The umbrageous loveliness of the surrounding country. 1846 N. Hawthorne Mosses i. i. 13 It makes us shiver to think of these deep umbrageous recesses. 1891 F. W. Farrar Darkness & Dawn II. lvi. 235 Everyone should wander at will about the green copses, and the umbrageous retreats. c. Caused by thick foliage. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > intercepting or cutting off of light > [adjective] > casting a shadow > overshadowing > affording shade > of shade: caused by thick foliage umbrageous1830 1830 J. G. Strutt Sylva Brit. (rev. ed.) 54 The religious Mahometans chose to pray under old trees,..piously believing that the holy men of former times had prayed and meditated under their umbrageous shade. a1854 J. Wilson in C. Gibbon Casquet of Lit. (1896) V. 178/2 Dew and dreams dropping through their umbrageous twilight at eve or morn. 2. a. Of persons: Suspicious; jealous; apt or disposed to take offence. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > indignation or resentment > [adjective] > characterized by or showing wrothc1000 highOE wrackfulc1230 indignant1590 snarling1599 umbrageous1601 indignatorya1624 resenting1634 resentful1656 affronted1663 bridling1673 begrudging1693 wrathy1873 α. 1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat 127 The inhabitants..partly by their forme of gouernment, whereby they are made vile, base and vmbragious, haue little valour or manhood left them. 1652 J. Wright tr. J.-P. Camus Nature's Paradox iii. Argt. 48 The King made jealous of the Queen, shee no less umbragious of him, and both for Iphigenes. 1758 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses (ed. 3) II. i. Pref. p. xvii Of which, doubtless, the Romans were very jealous, tho' not so extravagantly umbragious as our Critic's hypothesis obliges him to suppose. 1768 Bp. Hurd in Warburton's Lett. (1809) 425 Both susceptible of high passions in love and friendship; but, of the two, the Italian more constant, and less umbrageous. 1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece II. ii. vi. 503 The rural costume..which the Helot commonly wore, and the change of which exposed him to suspicion, if not to punishment, from his umbrageous masters. 1874 J. A. Symonds Sketches Italy & Greece (1898) I. vi. 107 The people are idle, haughty, umbrageous, fiery, quarrelsome [etc.]. β. 1623 J. Donne Serm. (1953) VI. 56 At the beginning some men were a little ombrageous, and startling at the name of the Fathers.1802 L. Hanson Accurate Hist. Acct. Orders of Knighthood Europe II. 306 Most punctilious with respect to forms and Ceremonies: and excessively ombrageous, with regard to the Non-observance of trivial points. b. Of disposition or nature. ΚΠ 1613 H. Wotton Let. 16 Nov. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 430 But lest you should mistake, as some others have been apt to do here, in the present constitution of the court (which is very ombragious). 1652 J. Wright tr. J.-P. Camus Nature's Paradox xii. 321 Let your rigour execute mee..all that your umbragious or Cholerick humour can suggest. 1667 G. Digby Elvira i. 2 What power, meer appearances, have had..to destroy With an umbragious nature, all that Love Was ever able..To found and to establish. †3. Obscure; dubious. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > insecure knowledge, uncertainty > [adjective] > obscure, vague cloudyc1400 indeterminatec1400 diffuse1430 diffused?1456 obscure?a1475 infinite1520 ambiguous1529 indistincta1530 nubilous1533 dark1557 undetermined1588 undefinite1589 undeterminate1603 indetermined1611 undefined1611 suspense1624 umbrageous1635 clouded1641 undeterminated1641 fuliginous1646 implicit1660 vague1690 diffusive1709 nubilose1730 foggy1737 unliquidated1780 hazy1781 indecisive1815 nebulous1817 penumbral1819 aoristic1846 scumbled1868 nubiform1873 out-of-focus1891 fuzzy1937 soft focus1938 1635 J. Reynolds Triumphs Gods Revenge (new ed.) iii. xiii. 256 That there was none other present but himselfe when his Master De Merson was murthered, it is umbragious, and leaves a..sting of suspition in their heads. a1649 W. Drummond Hist. James II in Wks. (1711) 24 By umbragious Ways he nourished Discontentments in all Parts of the Country. 1651 H. L'Estrange Answer Marques of Worcester's Paper 61 We blesse God for the light they had, though umbrageous and clouded, yet was it such as discovered the nakednesse and shame of the Church of Rome. Derivatives umˈbrageously adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > means of concealment > [adverb] under covert1477 cloakedlya1500 disguisedly1631 umbrageouslya1649 incognito1649 wrappingly1649 incog1709 the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > intercepting or cutting off of light > [adverb] > affording shade umbrageously1836 umbriferously1884 a1649 W. Drummond Wks. (1711) 175 He had Intention to bring Novations into our Religion; tending umbrageously, and under a Mask, to the Introduction of Popery. 1836 W. H. Ainsworth Rookwood (rev. ed.) i. i. 10 One tree..out-flings..its arms umbrageously. umˈbrageousness n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > intercepting or cutting off of light > [noun] > casting of a shadow > overshadowing > shadiness shadiness1611 umbrageousness1614 umbrosity1646 umbraciousness1661 umbriferousness1727 1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. i. iv. §3. 69 The exceeding vmbragiousnesse of this tree he compareth to the darke and shadowed life of man. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. at Shadiness Umbrageousness. 1823 Examiner 106/2 Trees..spreading sideways with Asiatic grace and umbrageousness. 1837 Blackwood's Mag. 41 512 A face incapable of a blush, partly from the umbrageousness of the whiskers. 1871 Daily News 28 July The familiar umbrageousness of Croydon. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1587
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