- umbrageousness
- noun see umbrageous
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
umbrageousness
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Umbrageousness — Umbrageous Um*bra geous (?; 277), a. [Cf. F. ombraqeux shy, skittish, suspicious, in OF. also, shady. See {Umbrage}.] 1. Forming or affording a shade; shady; shaded; as, umbrageous trees or foliage. [1913 Webster] Umbrageous grots and caves Of… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
umbrageousness — um·bra·geous·ness … English syllables
umbrageousness — noun see umbrageous * * * umbrāˈgeousness noun • • • Main Entry: ↑umbrage … Useful english dictionary
umbrageous — adjective Date: 1587 1. a. affording shade b. spotted with shadows 2. inclined to take offense easily • umbrageously adverb • umbrageousness noun … New Collegiate Dictionary
Brummagem — Brummagem, (and historically also Bromichan, Bremicham and many similar variants, all essentially Bromwich·ham), is the local name for the city of Birmingham, England, and the dialect associated with it, (see, for example, Carl Chinn and Steve… … Wikipedia
umbrageous — umbrageously, adv. umbrageousness, n. /um bray jeuhs/, adj. 1. creating or providing shade; shady: an umbrageous tree. 2. apt to take offense. [1580 90; UMBRAGE + OUS] * * * … Universalium
gloom — Synonyms and related words: adumbrate, becloud, bedarken, bedim, begloom, black, black out, blacken, blackness, bleakness, block the light, blot out, blues, brood, brown, cast a shadow, cloud, cloud over, cloudiness, dark, dark shade, darken,… … Moby Thesaurus
shade — Synonyms and related words: Masan, achromatism, adumbration, air, amount, anima, anima humana, apparition, appearance, apply paint, astral, astral spirit, atman, atom, awning, ba, baldacchino, baldachin, banshee, beat, becloud, bedarken, bedaub,… … Moby Thesaurus
shadow — Synonyms and related words: Masan, adherent, adumbrate, adumbration, afterglow, afterimage, air, airy nothing, alter ego, amount, anima, anima humana, apparition, appearance, appendage, apply paint, arrangement, astral, astral spirit, atman,… … Moby Thesaurus
silhouette — Synonyms and related words: adumbration, black and white, broad lines, brouillon, cartoon, charcoal, charcoal drawing, chiaroscuro, configuration, contour, crayon, dark shade, delineate, delineation, design, diagram, doodle, draft, drawing,… … Moby Thesaurus
