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umbrageous

adjective

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ʌmˈbɹeɪdʒəs/

adj

Etymology: From Middle French ombrageux, or from umbrage + -ous.

  1. Having or providing shade; shady.

    […] What tho' his Forests wave / Umbrageous to the Gale, and Nature walks / In loose Luxuriance o'er his native Plains; / Those Forests wave, those Plains delight no more; / […]

    Not a single one of those "umbrageous trees," of which our Mayor declaimed so feelingly, has yet been planted; […] They should protest against his withdrawal from that station, until the banks of the Monongahela and Duquesne Way are once more covered with "umbrageous trees," […]

  2. Irritable, easily upset.
umbrageous — meaning, definition (adjective) · Vinony