verdant
/ˈvəːd(ə)nt
/adjective
1(Of countryside) green with grass or other rich vegetation: verdant valleys...
- St. Mary's is not clustered in a village as churches often are but stands alone in the verdant countryside.
- She picks that not for it's literary history, as I was expecting, but rather for verdant countryside dotted with sheep.
- It is produced in verdant countryside inland from the coast north of the city of Oporto which is known as the Costa Verde or Green Coast.
Synonyms
green, leafy, grassy, grass-covered;
lush, rich, flourishing, thriving, teeming, prolific, rampant, overgrown, dense, thick, jungle-like
informal jungly
rare verdurous, viridescent, virid, graminaceous, gramineous
1.1Of the bright green colour of lush grass: a deep, verdant green a serving of hideously verdant mushy peas...
- The deciduous forest patch was at its best after the monsoon showers, the grass a verdant green.
- I watched them waft in the breeze before settling gracefully into the verdant green grass between my boots.
- Then Las Alpujarras - the name is thought to derive from the Arabic for ‘high green place’ - are lush and verdant.
Derivatives
verdancy
- Why go to Switzerland for skiing and soaking in the scenic verdancy of the mountains when you can do it in Kashmir?
- Isabelli cloaks herself in verdancy, and threads the most beautiful blooms of desert, forest grasslands and jungle alike through her hair.
- To the west there's the thriving verdancy of Roosevelt Island, to the northwest a graceful bend in the Potomac at Georgetown.
verdantly
- No longer used for growing crops, they are still verdantly green.
- Fans of Oscar Wilde will recall that the verdantly carnationed Irish writer met his downfall over allegations that he had kissed a certain boy.
- It has blossomed verdantly and viciously since Howard gave silent assent.
Origin
Late 16th century: perhaps from Old French verdeant, present participle of verdoier 'be green', based on Latin viridis 'green'.