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virid

Syllables: vir·id/ˈvɪɹɪd/

virid adjective: green, verdant.

virid: green, verdant
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Adjective

virid (comparative more virid, superlative most virid)

  1. (literary, poetic) Green, verdant.
    • Her tombe vvas not of viride Spartane greet, / Nor yet by cunning hand of Scopas vvrought, / But built of poliſht ſtone, and thereon laid / The liuely ſhape and purtrait of the maid.1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Twelfth Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold]...
    • The palace here, and there a virid mound, / Confine a flow'ry ſpot of graſſy ground.1758, [James Macpherson], The Highlander: […], Edinburgh: […] Wal[ter] Ruddiman jun. and Company, →OCLC, canto IV, page 52

Noun (1)

virid (uncountable)

  1. (literary, poetic, rare) A green colour.
    • In January 1208 the king ordered for a chaplain a robe of virid or burnet with a hood of coney skin 'like our other chaplains', […]1951, Doris Mary Stenton, “Annotations”, in English Society in the Early Middle Ages ‹1066–1307›, 2nd edition, Harmondsworth, Middlesex [London]: Penguin Books, published 1959, →OCLC, footnote 29...
    • As to the regulation of the fire, if it is too hot the colour of the flowers will be yellow; if it is too cold the colour of the flowers will be virid or purple[…].1980, Joseph Needham, edited by Ho Ping-Yu, Science and Civilisation in China, volume 5, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN

Noun (2)

UK/ˈvaɪɹɪd/

virid (plural virids)

  1. (in plural) Any of a group of related viruses.

virid meaning in Tamil and Urdu

virid in Tamil

பசுமை

virid in Urdu

سبز, شوخ سبز

Examples of virid in a sentence

  • Virid fields would heave brownly under their ploughs; they would find that with practice it was almost as easy to chuckle as it was to cringe.1921 October, James Branch Cabell, “The Story of the Satraps”, in Chivalry: Dizain des Reines, revised edition, New York, N.Y.: Robert...
  • He urged me to meditate upon the virid line of the whirling universe.1977, Angela Carter, chapter 2, in The Passion of New Eve, London: Virago Press, published 1992, →ISBN, page 13:
  • I am drawn to the eccentric color words, which need, and often defy, definition. […] virid, a dangerously alive green; […]2013, Coleman Barks, “The VOICE inside WATER”, in Hummingbird Sleep: Poems, 2009-2011, Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, →ISBN...

Synonyms of virid

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Forms of virid

Adjective
comparativemore virid
superlativemost virid
Noun
pluralvirids

Origin of virid

From Middle English viride (“verdigris”, adjective, noun) [and other forms] + English -id (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives and nouns). Viride is borrowed from Latin viridis (“green; (figuratively) fresh; lively; young, youthful”), from vireō (“to be green or verdant; to sprout new green growth; to flourish; to be lively or vigorous”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to procreate; to produce; to increase; to raise”). Doublet of verdant and vert.

PIE word *wisós Either: * from virus + -id (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives and nouns); or * from translingual viridae (“grouping of viruses”) + English -id; viridae is derived from Latin virus (“poison; venom; (New Latin) virus (infectious organism)”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wisós (“poison; slime”)) + translingual -idae (suffix forming names of families of animals).

Words formed from virid

Questions about virid

What does virid mean?
Virid means green, verdant.
What is virid in Tamil?
Virid in Tamil is பசுமை. See Virid meaning in Tamil.
How do you use virid in a sentence?
Virid fields would heave brownly under their ploughs; they would find that with practice it was almost as easy to chuckle as it was to cringe.
What part of speech is virid?
Virid can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce virid?
Virid is pronounced /ˈvɪɹɪd/ (UK).

Words near virid in the dictionary

  1. virializing
  2. virials
  3. viricidal
  4. viricide
  5. viricides
  6. virid
  7. viridenomycin
  8. viridescence
  9. viridescences
  10. viridescent
  11. viridescently

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Adapted from Wiktionary: virid (page history and authors); virid (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); virid (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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