umbrageous

[ uhm-brey-juhs ]

adjective

1. creating or providing shade; shady:

   an umbrageous tree.

2. apt to take offense.

umbrageous

/ ʌmˈbreɪdʒəs /

adjective

1. shady or shading

Derived Forms

• umˈbrageously, adverb
• umˈbrageousness, noun

Other Words From

• um·brageous·ly adverb
• um·brageous·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of umbrageous¹

First recorded in 1580–90; umbrage + -ous

Example Sentences

Rich land is scarce in Kerm, and a Domain’s pride is in the length of its borders, and the lords of Kerm Land are proud men and umbrageous men, casting black shadows.

From Literature

And those freed from a habit of bondage—bondage of the chain or the spirit—may feel as a man deposited in caverns without benefit of lantern and told he may range infinitely where he will: The word of his great latitude for motion is little consolation, when he might at any moment strike his head upon a ceiling he did not know dropped so low, or be precipitated into pits, and breathe his last broken on some umbrageous declivity.

From Literature

Below-decks, we formed as best we could in straitened space and umbrageous darkness.

From Literature

“It aims at the palatial and attains the sham-palatial,” the anonymous reviewer wrote, describing the projecting cornice as “huge, umbrageous, unmeaning, irrelevant” and characteristic “of the cheapest and vulgarest kind of tenement houses.”

From New York Times

These manifold streams shed also a hue of indescribable verdure, a fresh leafyness of aspect, that is most grateful to the eye; and though there is not there, as in our own land, the frequent hedge-row, with its sweet village associations, yet there is no want of high umbrageous trees scattered here and there, besides the thick woods that, in many places, occupy several leagues in extent, and the lesser copses that nest themselves in many a dell.

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