greenward

greenward

English

Etymology

green +‎ -ward

Adverb

greenward (comparative more greenward, superlative most greenward)

1. Toward a green, for example on a golf course.
2. Towards an ecologically friendly situation.
   • 2006, Mike Davis, City of quartz: excavating the future in Los Angeles, page 202:

     Yet the Bradley administration - moving ever greenward as it bailed itself out from one political corruption crisis to another - continued in theory to commit itself to tougher growth-management and conservationist positions.

   • 2007 May 20, Charles Siebert, “Falling Down Green”, in New York Times‎:

     But it was in the immediate numinous aftermath of that predawn visit that I first saw the next, final stage of our haplessly greenward collapse.