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greenward

greenward adverb: toward a green, for example on a golf course.

Adverb

greenward (comparative more greenward, superlative most greenward)

  1. Toward a green, for example on a golf course.
  2. Towards an ecologically friendly situation.
    • 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.2006, Mike Davis, City of quartz: excavating the future in Los Angeles, page 202
    • 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.2007 May 20, Charles Siebert, “Falling Down Green”, in New York Times

Forms of greenward

comparativemore greenward
superlativemost greenward

Origin of greenward

From green + -ward.

Questions about greenward

What does greenward mean?
Greenward means toward a green, for example on a golf course.
What part of speech is greenward?
Greenward is an adverb.

Words near greenward in the dictionary

  1. Greenw
  2. Greenwald
  3. Greenwalds
  4. Greenwalt
  5. Greenwalts
  6. greenward
  7. greenware
  8. greenwares
  9. greenwash
  10. greenwashed
  11. greenwasher

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