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craterous

craterous

8.6
Having many round holes like the moon's surface
  • adjective
  • /ˈkreɪtərəs/
  • Specialized
translation icon : crateroso
  • The landscape was craterous, with many round depressions resembling those on the moon.

Examples

  • After the meteor impact, the surface became craterous, dotted with deep, circular holes.

  • By streetlight, the paw prints looked craterous.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • One of the craters on the craterous moon shakes and erupts, puffing out a bunch of white smoke which forms the words: "The End."

    Fiction book (1990)

  • Up close, her face terrifies my own, lip liner generous around her mouth, pores craterous with rouge.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • The artist used a craterous texture in the painting to evoke the surface of a distant planet.

Synonyms

cratered
vscraterous
4.5

Having many deep round holes like those on the Moon

also applies when something merely resembles those round depressions
craterlike
vscraterous
4.6

Like a bowl-shaped hollow in the ground or on a surface

can also mean being covered with many such round hollows

How Pitted

craterous
  • Specialized
8.6
cratered
4.5
pitted
4.4
smooth
256 1.0

Surface Forms

craterous positive

Morphology

craterous = crater (transparent) = crater + ous

Formed by the noun 'crater' plus the productive adjectival suffix '-ous', so the meaning 'having or resembling craters' is directly derived.

Etymology

Craterous comes from crater, a word that originally meant a 'bowl', and the ending -ous means 'full of'. So craterous describes land with many round, bowl-shaped holes, like the moon's surface.