environmentally-friendly
environmentally-friendly — adjective
1. describing products, practices, or behaviours that cause little or no damage to
describing products, practices, or behaviours that cause little or no damage to the natural world, or that are designed to reduce pollution and waste.
The hotel uses solar panels and serves locally grown food to be more environmentally friendly.
predicative use: be + environmentally friendly
More shoppers now look for environmentally-friendly cleaning products made with natural ingredients.
attributive use: environmentally-friendly + noun
The company switched to recyclable packaging as part of its environmentally-friendly policy.
Many cities are building environmentally-friendly public transport systems to cut air pollution.
Yusuf bought an environmentally-friendly car that runs on electricity instead of petrol.
- eco-friendly
more informal and commonly used in marketing; shorter and more casual in tone
- sustainable
broader meaning that also covers social and economic responsibility, not just environmental impact
- green
informal and sometimes vague; a company may claim to be 'green' based on a single initiative
- harmful to the environment
direct opposite in terms of impact
- polluting
focuses on active release of harmful substances into air, water, or soil
文法句型
be environmentally friendly
environmentally-friendly + noun
用法筆記
The hyphen is optional after a linking verb (e.g. "The building is environmentally friendly") but common when the compound appears before a noun ("an environmentally-friendly option").