umbrageous
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /ʌmˈbɹeɪdʒəs/
Adjective

umbrageous

  1. Having shade; shady; having shade provided by thick foliage.
    • 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.



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