Dictionary

ivied en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈaɪviːd/

Etymology

From ivy + -ed.

Meanings

1. Overgrown with ivy or another climbing plant.
   • But he was broodingly unable to see even the most ivied tower as anything but a pile of stones till, inexplicably, the miracle of recovered hope and courage transformed him. 1951, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 4, in World so Wide […], New York, N.Y.: Random House, →OCLC, page 35:
   • Even a place as innocent and unsqualid as the ivied Wesleyan University in Connecticut provokes contempt[…] 1987, Eugene Goodheart, Pieces of Resistance, page 188:
   • […] great glossy-leaved mango trees ivied with pepper vines […] 1988, Nadine Gordimer, The Essential Gesture, New York: Knopf, pages 195–196:
   • […] Lancelot Carnaby stopped from his rash venture into the water, and drew himself back into an ivied bush, which served as the finial of the little garden-hedge. 1880, R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, “Battery and Assumpsit”, in Mary Anerley. A Yorkshire Tale. […], volume III, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, […], →OCLC, page 33:

Forms

Antonyms

univied

Translations (5)

ka გაბარდული (overgrown with ivy or another climbing plant) · it ederoso (overgrown with ivy or another climbing plant) · cy eiddewog (overgrown with ivy or another climbing plant) · ga eidhneánach (overgrown with ivy or another climbing plant) · ga eidhneach (overgrown with ivy or another climbing plant)