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".

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.