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🌙 Gentle moonlight 🎨 A pale color
moonglow

moonglow

5.3
A soft pale silver or bluish-white color like moonlight
  • noun
translation icon : color lunar
  • The designer recommended moonglow for the curtains to give the room a soft, elegant look.

Examples

  • He admired the car's unique moonglow finish under the streetlights.

  • The room was bathed in a soft moonglow.

  • The walls of her bedroom were painted a gentle moonglow to create a calming atmosphere.

  • Look at that stunning moonglow on the water!

  • The artist used a soft shade of moonglow to create a serene atmosphere in her painting.

  • I decorated the bedroom with curtains that have a gentle moonglow hue.

  • The sky was filled with a beautiful moonglow during the evening, making everything look magical.

Antonyms

darkness
534 1.0

A time or place with almost no light

How Pale

undersaturated
  • Specialized
7.0
pale-hued
5.1
moonglow
5.3
silvery
25 3.2
richness
1 3.9

Surface Forms

moonglow singular
moonglows plural

Morphology

moonglow = moon + glow (transparent) = moon + glow

Formed from 'moon' + 'glow' and denotes a color resembling moonlight, which is a straightforward extension of the compound meaning.

Etymology

Moonglow comes from the two simple words moon and glow, with glow meaning 'soft light'. So as a color, moonglow is a pale, silvery or bluish-white shade that looks like that soft moonlight.