verdure

verdure

noun

Definition of VERDURE

1

green leaves or plants <a good time to tour the wine country is when it is clothed with the verdure of midsummer>

Synonyms flora, foliage, green, herbage, leafage, vegetation, verdure

Related Words grassland, prairie; underbrush, undergrowth

2

the condition of being sound in body <a portrait of a fresh-faced teenage girl in all of her youthful verdure and irrepressible joie de vivre>

Synonyms fitness, healthiness, heartiness, robustness, sap, soundness, verdure, wellness, wholeness, wholesomeness

Related Words fettle, shape; cleanliness, hygiene; hardiness, lustiness, robustiousness, ruggedness, stamina, strength, toughness, vigor, vigorousness, vitality; bloom, flush, flushness; activeness, agility, liveliness, spryness; weal, welfare, well-being

Near Antonyms debility, decrepitude, feebleness, frailness, infirmity, lameness, sickliness, weakness; ailment, condition, disease, disorder, malady, trouble

Antonyms illness, sickness, unhealthiness, unsoundness