Meanings
comparative more greenward · superlative most greenward
- Toward a green, for example on a golf course.
- Towards an ecologically friendly situation.
But it was in the immediate numinous aftermath of that predawn visit that I first saw the next, final stage of our haplessly greenward collapse.
2007 May 20, Charles Siebert, “Falling Down Green”, in New York Times1 more example
Yet the Bradley administration - moving ever greenward as it bailed itself out from one political corruption crisis to another - continued in theory to commit itself to tougher growth-management and conservationist positions.
2006, Mike Davis, City of quartz: excavating the future in Los Angeles, page 202
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