umbrageous
adjUK /ʌmˈbɹeɪdʒəs/
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; / […]1766 June 5, “An Exercise, containing a Dialogue, and two Odes, performed at the public Commencement in the College of Philadelphia, May 20, 1766”, in The Pennsylvania Gazette, page 2:
- 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," […]1838 June 9, “The City Improvement Candidate”, in The Daily Pittsburgh Gazette, page 2:
4 more examples
- ... without which the stem could not have supported its heavy and umbrageous top.1858, R M Ballantyne, The Coral Island:
- Rhodes gazed wistfully into the dense umbrageous tangle whence his host had disappeared.1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 130:
- Not far away was the bank of a canal, bordered by a magnificent avenue shaded by a double row of immense umbrageous trees.1898, Garrett Putman Serviss, Edison’s Conquest of Mars:
- A movement in the umbrageous undergrowth betrays the presence of something leaping from the ferns.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 52:
2
Figuratively Irritable, easily upset.
- Derived terms
- umbrageously, umbrageousness