olive-green

1. 1.

   a color that is lighter and greener than olive

   Synonymsolive green

   Broadergreen

Questions about olive-green

What does olive-green mean?

olive-green means "a color that is lighter and greener than olive".

How many syllables are in olive-green?

olive-green has 4 syllables: o-li-ve--green. The stress falls on "li".

What is another word for olive-green?

Close synonyms include olive green. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is olive-green a common word?

olive-green is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.