verdantly

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English verdant

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.

Proto-Germanic *līkąder.

Proto-Germanic *-līkaz

Proto-Germanic *-ê

Proto-Germanic *-līkê

Proto-West Germanic *-līkē

Old English -līċe

Middle English -ly

English -ly

English verdantly

From verdant + -ly.

Adverb

verdantly (comparative more verdantly, superlative most verdantly)

1. In a verdant manner; in a fashion indicating greenness (green color.)
   • 1808, “Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms”, in Thomas Moore (lyrics), Irish Melodies:

     Let thy loveliness fade as it will; / And, around the dear ruin each wish of my heart / Would entwine itself verdantly still!

   • 1850, Herman Melville, Hawthorne and His Mosses:

     With that she left me, and soon returned with a volume, verdantly bound, and garnished with a curious frontispiece in green,—nothing less, than a fragment of real moss cunningly pressed to a fly-leaf.

2. In a verdant manner; in a fashion indicating greenness (naivety.)

Synonyms

• greenly