umbrageous
English
Etymology
From Middle French ombrageux, or from umbrage + -ous.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ʌmˈbɹeɪdʒəs/
Adjective
umbrageous (comparative more umbrageous, superlative most umbrageous)
- Having shade; shady; having shade provided by thick foliage.
- 1858, R M Ballantyne, The Coral Island:
- ... without which the stem could not have supported its heavy and umbrageous top.
- 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 130:
- Rhodes gazed wistfully into the dense umbrageous tangle whence his host had disappeared.
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- (figuratively) Irritable, easily upset.
Derived terms
- umbrageously
- umbrageousness