moony

Examples

• All

• All around, nettles floated, moony white parachutes pulsing in the grainy water, dangling misty ornaments on a sea tree.

  Fiction book (1995)

• We gathered at the beach to enjoy a quiet evening in the moony glow of the rising tide.

• In the moony dark, I groped and found Champ's saddle and tack.

  Fiction book (1997)

• Under the dancing eyelids, his pale gray eyes would travel upward and crescents of the moony, blue-tinged whites would show themselves.

  Fiction book (1996)

• Whenever Rockin' Robbie walked into PJ's, everybody in the place raised their glasses and pointed their noses at the fake bronze of the ceiling and bayed at the stars we knew spun only for us in the high, moony night above Charlotte.

  Fiction book (1992)

• The garden looked magical under the moony sky, with silver light illuminating the flowers.

Synonyms

M

moonlit

vsmoony

9 2.1

Lit by the light of the moon

is the poetic phrase meaning bathed in pale night light

M

moonlike

vsmoony

1 4.1

Having a shape or look like the moon

is about being lit by pale night light, not shape or look

M

moon-splashed

vsmoony

• Literature

7.5

A place or object that has small areas lit by moonlight

is bathed evenly rather than in scattered patches of light

M

moonish

vsmoony

• Archaic

8.7

Having a soft pale glow like the moon

is actually lit by pale night light rather than merely resembling it

Compounds

M

moony expression

• Informal

8.1

A dreamy, absent-minded look that shows someone is lost in thought

How Moonlit

moonlit

9 2.1

moony

• Literature

7.7

moon-splashed

• Literature

7.5

dim

62 1.0

dark

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology