green
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6.2
- adjective
- /ɡrin/
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pálido
- After that roller coaster ride, I felt so green that I had to sit down for a minute.
Examples
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He looked green and unwell during the entire car ride back from the amusement park.
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"You look a little green," Laura says, glancing at her friend and shifting gears fast.
Fiction book (2001) -
Has my face gone green?
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"Someone looks green under his tan and all those new muscles," she said.
Fiction book (1996) -
You're beginning to look a little green.
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Larry was there too, but Larry looked green as if he might faint.
Fiction book (1991) -
I realize how pale and poisoned he looks, how his skin looks almost green underneath the amber.
Fiction book (1992) -
She turned green after eating the leftover food that had been in the fridge too long.
Synonyms
Looking pale and sick, often feeling like you will vomit
Someone who looks pale and greenish from being weak with illness
Antonyms
Idioms
- Jargon
To look at the slope and surface of a golf green to decide how to hit a putt
Compounds
- US
52
3.4
An official card that allows a foreign person to live and work permanently in the United States
16
3.7
A political party that wants to protect the environment and support fair social policies
1
4.0
A period in the 1960s and 1970s when new seeds and fertilizers greatly increased food crops
- Specialized
1
5.8
A way to release software using two identical systems to move users to the new version
1
3.1
A range of mountains in Vermont, USA that are part of the Appalachian Mountains
1
3.2
A river in the western United States that starts in Wyoming and flows south into the Colorado River
- Specialized
1
4.1
Tiny living things in water that make food from light and often look blue-green
- Literature
1
9.6
A soldier in green with no badge sent so a country can deny sending them
1
6.5
A West African monkey that lives in open grasslands with a greenish-grey back and a yellow tail
- Archaic
1
7.5
A soup made from the meat of green turtles, often served as a special food
A low, soft green plant with creeping stems often used to make Christmas wreaths
- South African
A monkey that lives on the African savanna with greenish-grey fur and a yellow tail
A small green or yellow-green toad with black bars and stripes found in North America
How Sick
Surface Forms
Etymology
Green meaning 'looking sick' comes from the greenish look a person can get when they feel unwell, so people say you look green when you seem pale or about to be sick. That's why 'turning green' means feeling ill.