Entry Word: lush

Function: adjective

Meaning: 1 covered with a thick healthy natural growth <they loved to go for picnics in the lush woodlands>

Synonyms green, leafy, luxuriant, overgrown, verdant

Related Words fat, fecund, fertile, fruitful, productive, rich; dense, tangled

Near Antonyms bleak, depleted, infertile, poor, unproductive; arid, dead, desert, dry, parched

Antonyms barren, leafless

2 growing thickly and vigorously <lush dandelions had turned the meadow into a sea of yellow> — see rank 1