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ivied

ivied

6.8
Covered in ivy
  • adjective
  • /ˈaɪviːd/
translation icon : cubierto de hiedra
  • Visitors admired the ivied garden wall covered in lush leaves and delicate white flowers.
  • ivied walls

Examples

  • Phoenix proudly billed itself as "the largest private university in the United States," but to most of the magazine's readers, accustomed to imagining higher education as pastoral and ivied, not as a publicly traded company, it was a dangerous interloper.

    Academic text (2003)
  • And may drums continue to reverberate within the ivied walls of Yale.

    Academic text (1996)
  • The old mansion is beautifully ivied, with green tendrils climbing its weathered stone walls.

  • The university's library, with its ivied façade, is a popular spot for students to study.

Synonyms

ivy-covered
vsivied
2 3.2

A wall or building covered by ivy plants that climb and spread over the surface

is the same meaning but written as a single-word adjective
vegetated
vsivied
3.5

Covered with plants such as grass or small bushes

is narrower meaning overgrown by a specific climbing plant rather than any plants

Antonyms

217 2.2

Not covered or protected, showing the plain surface

uncovered
  • NSFW
1.9

Not wearing clothes on a part of the body

How Ivied

ivied
6.8
bare
217 2.2

Surface Forms

ivied positive

Morphology

ivied = ivy (transparent) = ivy + ed

The word 'ivied' is clearly derived from 'ivy' with the suffix '-ed' indicating the state of being covered with ivy.

Etymology

Ivied comes from the plant ivy plus the ending -ed, which means 'covered with' or 'having'. So ivied simply means 'covered with ivy', which is why we call a wall or building ivied when ivy grows all over it.