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moonish

8.7

Having a soft pale glow like the moon

adjective
/ˈmuːnɪʃ/

Archaic

: lunar

Her moonish skin glowed softly in the candlelight, making her look ethereal and enchanting.

Examples

The artist painted a moonish landscape, with soft, pale colors that evoked a serene night sky.
His shallow, round face looks moonish in the organic glow of the underwater python, and he traces one finger around his mouth, following the path of his lips, a leftover habit from his recent bout of thumb-sucking.

Fiction book (2002)
That big and brilliant platinum moon, somehow closer, somehow different, more moonish, more spectacular.

Fiction book (2002)
The lamp gave off a moonish light, casting a gentle, round glow throughout the room.

Synonyms

lunar

vsmoonish

101 3.9

Relating to the moon, its surface or its phases

focuses on visible pale round shape and soft glow rather than broad relation

moonlit

vsmoonish

9 2.1

Lit by the light of the moon

describes overall pale, round, softly luminous appearance not only lighting

glowy

vsmoonish

5 5.6

A soft bright look that seems to shine from within

is specifically about pale round appearance and soft lunar like glow rather than general shine

moonlike

vsmoonish

1 4.1

Having a shape or look like the moon

adds specifics of pale, round shape and soft luminosity rather than general likeness

moony

vsmoonish

Literature

7.7

Filled with soft light from the moon

stresses shape and pale soft glow rather than just being lit

moon-splashed

vsmoonish

Literature

7.5

A place or object that has small areas lit by moonlight

means an overall round pale appearance instead of patchy illumination

Antonyms

dark

∞ 1.0

With little or no light and not bright

dull

31 1.0

Not bright or shiny with weak colour

How Moonlike

moonlike

1 4.1

moonish

Archaic

8.7

luminous

38 4.8

wan

7.3

pale

291 1.0

Surface Forms

moonish positive

Morphology

moonish = moon (transparent) = moon + ish

Direct descriptive formation meaning 'resembling the moon' (pale, round, softly luminous) is a straightforward adjective from 'moon' + '-ish'.

Etymology

Moonish comes from moon and the ending -ish, where -ish means 'like', and the moon looks pale, round, and softly lit. So moonish describes something that is 'pale' or softly glowing, like the light of the moon.