brown
brown adj
OE.
- Tree-colored; color of dead leaves in autumn; hue of declining vegetation in the fall season; mixture of red, black, and yellow.
- Earth-colored; hue of dirt; [fig.] ripe; mature; ready to harvest.
- Dark; twilit; benighted; crepuscular; [fig.] gloomy; serious; grim; dismal; cheerless; funereal.
- Not blue, green, or hazel colored; darker-colored iris; [fig.] sad; hopeless; lonely; pitiful; unhappy; lackluster; without light.
brown n
see brown, adj.
- Dark material; earth-colored fabric; [fig.] dusky-colored feathers.
- Earth; dirt; soil; humus; ground; matter; [fig.] nature; mortality; earthly experience.