Meaning of ungreen | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Not green.
   not-comparable, uncommon
2. Having little or no vegetation or plant matter.
   not-comparable
3. Lacking sap or vitality; desiccated.
   not-comparable
4. Environmentally unfriendly; harmful to or inconsiderate of the environment.
   not-comparable

Examples

“The ungreen emerald ring went round and round, and the ungreen emerald earrings swung: Thelma was working at the rim of her glass, too.”

“The ungreen virescent exhibits a low rate of true photosynthesis (on both a leaf fresh weight and chlorophyll basis) compared to wild-type.”

“Adam is also a member of the class of ungreen things, and by virtue of being ungreen can be an icon for ungreen things. But a poet who wanted to talk about ungreenness would have to take special pains to get us to notice that Adam was ungreen.”

“This clearly demonstrates the problem of multivalence because ungreen colors are many.”

“It is funny for the seaside, it looks such a “house-ified' place, it's an ungreen seaside.”

“The same article includes a recipe for a rather ungreen salad: Salad of mixed meat”

“More popular with visiting schoolchildren than tourists, the arboretum is worth a visit for anyone craving greenery in this ungreen city.”

“Later on Jerusalem would thread its enchantment and I would fall to its allure, but at first all I saw—despite the forest—was a dusty, ungreen, and unwatered land, the dry Judean hills stretching away toward the Dead Sea, whose dark dullness we could glimpse from viewpoints in the neighborhood.”

“The road had been transported or turned over into a kind of field and the grass was announcing itself in our ungreen and ungrowing world”

“Tell me why seedpods are pouring through a forest that has not a single ungreen spot to fill.”

“New Yorker's attended hockey and boxing at Madison Square Garden, an enclosed ungreen place, while Catalans follow one of the major global brands in football at the decidedly permanent and imposing Camp Nou.”

“The sheriff of Norfolk had power to search for and seize any "sound, dry, and ungreen" wood which he could find, and send the same to the Fletchers or arrow makers to be made into sheaves, tipped with steel heads according to a pattern in the Tower of London.”

“She scorched the ungreen fields, starving men of the yields of each expected crop;”

“Common examples were that trees are tall while other plants are short, and that soft-stemmed plants die each year after the rains stop while trees are hardy, surviving the dry season in a dry and ungreen state.”

“Looking at those vines reminds me that when I feel most ungreen and unproductive, when things aren't going well, if I stay connected to Jesus, the true Vine, as today's verse says, he will bring forth not just some fruit but much fruit.”

“There are green products packaged in ungreen ways. Ungreen products wrapped in green ways. Green products from ungreen companies. And green companies making ungreen products.”

“In other words, they are very unlikely to cut down on purchases in a particularly ungreen product category in order to increase their purchasing in a particularly green one.”

“In this way, a shift in consumption is encouraged away from “ungreen” goods and services.”

“Fourth, the definition encompasses both positive green behaviours that benefit the environment and negative ungreen behaviours that actively harm the environment.”

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