ivied
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
ivied (comparative more ivied, superlative most ivied)
- Overgrown with ivy or another climbing plant.
- 1951, Sinclair Lewis, World So Wide, Chapter 4, [1]
- […] he was broodingly unable to see even the most ivied tower as anything but a pile of stones till, inexplicably, the miracle of recovered hope and courage transformed him.
- 1987, Eugene Goodheart, Pieces of Resistance (page 188)
- Even a place as innocent and unsqualid as the ivied Wesleyan University in Connecticut provokes contempt […]
- 1988, Nadine Gordimer, The Essential Gesture, New York: Knopf, Chapter, pp. 195-6,
- […] great glossy-leaved mango trees ivied with pepper vines […]
- 1951, Sinclair Lewis, World So Wide, Chapter 4, [1]
Antonyms
Translations
overgrown with ivy
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