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umbrageous

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Adjective
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um=bra=geous

CIDE DICTIONARY

umbrageousa. [Cf. F. ombrageux shy, skittish, suspicious, in OF. also, shady. See Umbrage.].
  •  Forming or affording a shade; shady; shaded; as, umbrageous trees or foliage.  [1913 Webster]
    "Umbrageous grots and caves
    Of cool recess, o'er which the mantling vine
    Lays forth her purple grape.
    "  [1913 Webster]
  •  Not easily perceived, as if from being darkened or shaded; obscure.  Sir H. Wotton.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Feeling jealousy or umbrage; taking, or disposed to take, umbrage; suspicious.  [1913 Webster]

ROGET THESAURUS

umbrageous

Darkness

N darkness, absence of light, blackness, obscurity, gloom, murk, dusk, Cimmerian darkness, Stygian darkness, Egyptian darkness, night, midnight, dead of night, witching hour of night, witching time of night, blind man's holiday, darkness visible, darkness that can be felt, palpable obscure, Erebus, the jaws of darkness, sablevested night, shade, shadow, umbra, penumbra, sciagraphy, obscuration, occultation, adumbration, obumbration, obtenebration, offuscation, caligation, extinction, eclipse, total eclipse, gathering of the clouds, shading, distribution of shade, chiaroscuro, noctivagation, black body, hohlraum, black hole, dark star, dark matter, cold dark matter, dark, darksome, darkling, obscure, tenebrious, sombrous, pitch dark, pitchy, pitch black, caliginous, black, sunless, lightless &c (sun) (light), somber, dusky, unilluminated &c (illuminate), nocturnal, dingy, lurid, gloomy, murky, murksome, shady, umbrageous, overcast, cloudy, darkened, dark as pitch, dark as a pit, dark as Erebus, benighted, noctivagant, noctivagous, in the dark, in the shade, brief as the lightning in the collied night, eldest Night and Chaos, ancestors of Nature, the blackness of the noonday night, the prayer of Ajax was for light.

Shade

N shade, awning, parasol, sunshade, umbrella, chick, portiere, screen, curtain, shutter, blind, gauze, veil, chador, mantle, mask, cloud, mist, gathering, of clouds, umbrage, glade, shadow, beach umbrella, folding umbrella, shady, umbrageous, welcome ye shades! ye bowery thickets hail.


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