greenward

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adverb

Toward a green, for example on a golf course.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

adverbgreenward (comparative more greenward, superlative most greenward)

comparative more greenward · superlative most greenward

  1. Toward a green, for example on a golf course.
  2. 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 Times
    1 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

Origin

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APA

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MLA

“greenward.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/greenward. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “greenward,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/greenward.

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