Umbrageous

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ÊŒmˈbɹeɪdÊ’É™s/

Origin

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

Full definition of umbrageous

Adjective

1. Having shade; shady; having shade provided by thick foliage.
• 1858, R M Ballantyne, The Coral Island:... without which the stem could not have supported its heavy and umbrageous top.
• 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 130:Rhodes gazed wistfully into the dense umbrageous tangle whence his host had disappeared.
2. (figuratively) irritable, easily upset

Derived terms

• umbrageously
• umbrageousness