Adjective: verdurous
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more verdurous |
| Superlative | most verdurous |
Sample Sentences
-
The hill was blanketed in verdurous grasses.
-
The verdurous pasture...
-
a hall stood; o’er whose roof
-
Fair clinging weeds with ivy pale did grow,
-
Clasping its gray rents with a verdurous woof,
-
A hanging dome of leaves, a canopy moon-proof. [1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 271:]
Adjectives inflected like verdurous
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Originated c. 1595–1605, verdure + -ous, ultimately from verd (“green”), from Latin viridis. See: Latin Adjectives '
viridis'.