umbrageous

From Middle French ombrageux, or from umbrage +‎ -ous.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ʌmˈbɹeɪdʒəs/

umbrageous (comparative more umbrageous, superlative most umbrageous)

1. Having shade; shady; having shade provided by thick foliage.
   • 1858, R M Ballantyne, The Coral Island:

     ... without which the stem could not have supported its heavy and umbrageous top.

   • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 130:

     Rhodes gazed wistfully into the dense umbrageous tangle whence his host had disappeared.

2. (figuratively) Irritable, easily upset.

• umbrageously
• umbrageousness