ivied

Examples

• All

• 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

I

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

V

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

B

bare

217 2.2

Not covered or protected, showing the plain surface

U

uncovered

• NSFW

1.9

Not wearing clothes on a part of the body

How Ivied

ivied

6.8

bare

217 2.2

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology