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moonlike

moonlike

1 4.1
Having a shape or look like the moon
  • adjective
  • /ˈmuːnlaɪk/
translation icon : lunar
  • My own face, I must relate... ...was thrust moonlike through the lattice... ...gazing at a certain chart.

Examples

  • The light filled the room with a chilly, moonlike glow.

  • I can still see Flora, the way her large, moonlike face floated out at you from the frame of the wing chair.

  • The light filled the room with a chilly, moonlike glow.

    Academic text (2002)

  • Hulda smiles whenever it kicks her moonlike body, now taut as a drum.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • "You never share, Pewter," Tucker said as Mrs. Murphy ran between the rows of cornstalks, moving toward the moonlike pumpkins.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • "Now these," Malk said, with his usual enthusiasm for other people's legends, "are supposed by many to be children of the Moon, since their motions are moonlike."

    Fiction book (1990)

  • The two of them awoke and lay with hearts pounding till morning, while the waves of the city washed over them again and again with a harsh, moonlike obstinacy.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • United States forces bombed and shelled 30 percent of South Vietnam's territory, leaving a moonlike landscape pockmarked by an estimated 250 million craters.

    Academic text (1990)

  • He was large for his age and had a wide, moonlike face.

Synonyms

lunar
vsmoonlike
101 3.9

Relating to the moon, its surface or its phases

refers specifically to visual similarity in shape or look rather than relation
moonish
vsmoonlike
  • Archaic
8.7

Having a soft pale glow like the moon

emphasizes general shape rather than specific paleness or glow
moon-round
vsmoonlike
6.5

Having a round shape like the moon

focuses on overall appearance rather than just round shape

How Moonlike

lunar
101 3.9
moonlike
1 4.1
round
273 1.0

Surface Forms

moonlike positive

Morphology

moonlike = moon (transparent) = moon + like

The adjective is formed productively by attaching the suffix '-like' to the noun 'moon' to mean 'resembling the moon'.

Etymology

Moonlike is simply moon + -like, where moon is the familiar round, pale object in the sky and -like means 'similar to'. So something moonlike has a pale glow or a rounded, curved shape, which is why it 'resembles the moon' in look or form.