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umbrageous

UK/ʌmˈbɹeɪdʒəs/

umbrageous adjective: having or providing shade; shady.

Adjective

umbrageous (comparative more umbrageous, superlative most umbrageous)

  1. Having or providing shade; shady.
    • […] What tho' his Forests wave / Umbrageous to the Gale, and Nature walks / In loose Luxuriance o'er his native Plains; / Those Forests wave, those Plains delight no more; / […]1766 June 5, “An Exercise, containing a Dialogue, and two Odes, performed at the public Commencement in the College of Philadelphia, May 20, 1766”, in The Pennsylvania Gazette, page 2
    • Not a single one of those "umbrageous trees," of which our Mayor declaimed so feelingly, has yet been planted; […] They should protest against his withdrawal from that station, until the banks of the Monongahela and Duquesne Way are once more covered with "umbrageous trees," […]1838 June 9, “The City Improvement Candidate”, in The Daily Pittsburgh Gazette, page 2
    Synonyms:
    umbrose
  2. (figuratively) Irritable, easily upset.

umbrageous meaning in Urdu

umbrageous in Urdu

دھندلا, سایہ دار

Examples of umbrageous in a sentence

  • ... without which the stem could not have supported its heavy and umbrageous top.1858, R M Ballantyne, The Coral Island:
  • Rhodes gazed wistfully into the dense umbrageous tangle whence his host had disappeared.1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 130:
  • Not far away was the bank of a canal, bordered by a magnificent avenue shaded by a double row of immense umbrageous trees.1898, Garrett Putman Serviss, Edison’s Conquest of Mars:
  • A movement in the umbrageous undergrowth betrays the presence of something leaping from the ferns.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 52:

Synonyms of umbrageous

Forms of umbrageous

comparativemore umbrageous
superlativemost umbrageous

Origin of umbrageous

From Middle French ombrageux, or from umbrage + -ous.

Words formed from umbrageous

Questions about umbrageous

What does umbrageous mean?
Umbrageous means having or providing shade; shady.
What is umbrageous in Urdu?
Umbrageous in Urdu is دھندلا, سایہ دار. See Umbrageous meaning in Urdu.
How do you use umbrageous in a sentence?
... without which the stem could not have supported its heavy and umbrageous top.
What part of speech is umbrageous?
Umbrageous is an adjective.
How do you pronounce umbrageous?
Umbrageous is pronounced /ʌmˈbɹeɪdʒəs/ (UK).

Words near umbrageous in the dictionary

  1. umbraculum
  2. umbradilic acid
  3. umbrae
  4. umbrage
  5. umbraged
  6. umbrageous
  7. umbrageously
  8. umbrageousness
  9. umbrages
  10. umbraging
  11. umbraid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: umbrageous (page history and authors); umbrageous (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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