Dictionary

umbrageous en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• (US) audio
• /ʌmˈbɹeɪdʒəs/ (UK)

Etymology

From Middle French ombrageux, or from umbrage + -ous.

Meanings

1. Having or providing shade; shady.
   • Rhodes gazed wistfully into the dense umbrageous tangle whence his host had disappeared. 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 130:
   • […] What tho' his Forests wave / Umbrageous to the Gale, and Nature walks / In loose Luxuriance o'er his native Plains; / Those Forests wave, those Plains delight no more; / […] 1766 June 5, “An Exercise, containing a Dialogue, and two Odes, performed at the public Commencement in the College of Philadelphia, May 20, 1766”, in The Pennsylvania Gazette, page 2:
   • ... without which the stem could not have supported its heavy and umbrageous top. 1858, R M Ballantyne, The Coral Island:
   • A movement in the umbrageous undergrowth betrays the presence of something leaping from the ferns. 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 52:
   • Not a single one of those "umbrageous trees," of which our Mayor declaimed so feelingly, has yet been planted; […] They should protest against his withdrawal from that station, until the banks of the Monongahela and Duquesne Way are once more covered with "umbrageous trees," […] 1838 June 9, “The City Improvement Candidate”, in The Daily Pittsburgh Gazette, page 2:
   • Not far away was the bank of a canal, bordered by a magnificent avenue shaded by a double row of immense umbrageous trees. 1898, Garrett Putman Serviss, Edison’s Conquest of Mars:
2. (figuratively) Irritable, easily upset.

Forms

Deriveds

umbrageousness · umbrageously

Relateds

umbrous · umbral

Synonyms

umbrose

Translations (3)

ota گولگهلو (Shady) · bg сенчест (Shady) · bg докачлив (Irritable, easily upset)