adjective
1. Easily hurt or offended.
Her umbrageous words were perceived by some as a sign of weakness. It's ok to be weak sometimes. Many of us are weak all the time.
Synonyms: cognizant, conscious, delicate, easily affected, emotionable, emotional, feeling, fine, high-strung, hung up, hypersensitive, impressionable, keen, knowing, nervous, oversensitive, perceiving, perceptive, precarious, precise, psychic, reactive, receptive, responsive, seeing sensatory, sensile, sensitive, sensorial, sensory, sentient, supersensitive, susceptible, tense, ticklish, touchy, touchy feely, tricky, tuned in, understanding, unstable.
2. Affording or producing shade and/or shadowy places.
With her tail between her legs, she retreated into the umbrageous glen.*
Synonyms: adumbral, bosky, chiaroscuro, cloudy, cool, dim, indistinct, leafy, out of the sun, screened, shaded, shadowed, shadowy, shady, sheltered, umbrous, under a cloud, vague.
* This connection between the two definitions is where the expression "to take umbrage" comes from.
** I like this word because it feels like a mixture of "umm..." and "outrageous."
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