Umbrageous: Definition and part of speech

Umbrageous

  1. a. Feeling jealousy or umbrage; taking, or disposed to take, umbrage; suspicious.
  2. a. Forming or affording a shade; shady; shaded; as, umbrageous trees or foliage.
  3. a. Not easily perceived, as if from being darkened or shaded; obscure.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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