full moon

Examples

• All

• Is today the day of the full moon?

  For Love (2021)

• The evening is perfectly clear, and there is a full moon rising slowly and large behind them.

  Fiction book (1991)

• So first of all, the full moon at night is crazy bright.

• And every time I look at the full moon, I think, wow, we put people on the moon.

• Then she realized it was the full moon rising on the eastern horizon.

  Fiction book (1994)

• By the light of the full moon, she and Glenn took an ambulance to the hospital.

  Academic text (2001)

• Now the light of the full moon gleamed on the glass walls of the greenhouse.

  Fiction book (1994)

• The full moon illuminated the night sky, creating a beautiful scene for everyone to see.

• On the evening of the full moon, people gathered outside to admire its bright glow.

• The full moon is a perfect time for stargazing, as its light can make other stars harder to see.

Synonyms

F

full

vsfull moon

• Archaic

1 2.4

The time when the Moon looks completely round and bright

is the longer established phrase for that lunar phase rather than a short form

F

full-of-the-moon

vsfull moon

6.5

The time when the Moon looks fully round and very bright

is the unhyphenated standard phrase for the same lunar phase

F

full phase of the moon

vsfull moon

3.4

A time when the Moon looks completely lit in the night sky

is the concise term for that same lunar phase

Antonyms

N

new moon

9 2.8

A thin crescent of the Moon that first appears after a dark period

How Bright

supermoon

2 4.9

full moon

116 1.2

half-moon

1 2.6

crescent

30 3.5

new moon

9 2.8

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology