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green has 26 distinct synonyms spread across 10 of its 14 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. Its one recorded opposite is ripe.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass
a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area
“they went for a walk in the park”
United States labor leader who was president of the American Federation of Labor from 1924 to 1952 and who led the struggle with the Congress of Industrial Organizations (1873-1952)
an environmentalist who belongs to the Green Party
a river that rises in western Wyoming and flows southward through Utah to become a tributary of the Colorado River
an area of closely cropped grass surrounding the hole on a golf course
“the ball rolled across the green and into the bunker”
any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables
street names for ketamine
of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass
“a green tree”
turn or become green
“The trees are greening”
2 of the 14 recorded senses carry no synonym, antonym or related term, so they are not shown above. Every sense, with its definition and examples, is on the full entry for green.
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for green come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.
naive and easily deceived or tricked
“at that early age she had been gullible and in love”