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adjective as in young, new, blooming
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budding, burgeoning, developing, flourishing, foliate, growing, immature, infant, juvenile, maturing, pullulating, recent, sprouting, supple, unripe
adjective as in inexperienced
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callow, cherry, credulous, gullible, ignorant, inexpert, ingenuous, naive, unconversant, unpolished, unpracticed, unskillful, unsophisticated, untrained, unversed, wet behind the ears, youthful
adjective as in emerald in color
adjective as in referring to practices or policies that do not negatively affect the environment
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biodegradable, ecological, environment-friendly, environmental, environmentally-safe
Example Sentences
About 15 defendants sat in the defendants' box, while Dominique Pelicot, wearing a green jumper, sat in another, resting his chin on his hand.
Police said the plotters had nicknamed the operation "green and yellow dagger", in reference to the colours of the Brazilian flag.
Many view such statements as giving Israel a green light to ramp up bombings.
Someone said to me that I was going to fall in love with the green more than my own face.
The starting point for the proposed Chuckwalla monument is Painted Canyon, an area near the eastern edge of the Coachella Valley where the mountainside is stained deep red, pink, green and gray.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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