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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Dazed or distracted with romantic sentiment.
  2. adj. Affected by insanity; crazed.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Affected or regarded as affected in mind or health by the light of the moon; lunatic; crazed; dazed.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. obsolete crazy or insane when affected by the phases of the Moon.
  2. adj. by extension Showing irrational behaviour, especially of a romantic or sentimental nature.
  3. adj. obsolete Made sick, or (like fishes) unsuitable for food, by the supposed influence of the Moon.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Mentally affected or deranged by the supposed influence of the moon; lunatic.
  2. adj. Produced by the supposed influence of the moon.
  3. adj. Made sick by the supposed influence of the moon, as a human being; made unsuitable for food, as fishes, by such supposed influence.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. insane and believed to be affected by the phases of the moon

Etymologies

  1. moon +‎ struck (Wiktionary)
  2. From the belief that the moon caused insanity. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (3)

Words with the same meaning

  1. lunatic
  1. derange
  1. moonstricken

equivalents (1)

Other words for ‘moonstruck’

  1. insane

same context (20)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. day-old
  2. extremer
  3. love-sick
  4. connectionless
  1. whey-faced
  2. montaje
  3. love-starved
  4. putty-like
  1. euphonious
  2. five-legged
  3. straight-laced
  4. cream-like
  1. kooky
  2. paschal
  3. fat-bellied
  4. wolfhound
  1. line-back
  2. offthe
  3. wuzzy
  4. unconscientious

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. moonblind
  1. moonstricken
  1. mooning
  1. mooner
  1. moon
  1. lunatic
  1. moony

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  • trivet Yesterday, I got hit by these. Apr 5, 2010

  • bilby I'd better see NASA about returning this lorry to its owner. Mar 31, 2010

  • yarb Keith elected not to travel on the tour bus with Pete, Roger and John. Mar 31, 2010

  • bilby Once, during a party at a friend's apartment in Cottesloe, Western Australia, I opened the fridge and some green cheese fell onto my foot. Mar 31, 2010

  • oroboros I got moon-mugged once; I was being followed by a moonshadow! Mar 31, 2010

  • bilby If you go to strike and look at the etymologies, some of the early senses are quite sensual rather than violent: stroke, rub, graze, etc.

    I don't follow VO's logic. Sort of. I just wish he'd explained it better. Mar 30, 2010

  • wcrxlp Moonstruck. The definitions and etymologies focus on the first syllable and ignore the second. I think there is hidden significance in "struck." The distant silver orb is quiet, tranquil. It doesn't threaten. Then why is a word describing violence appended? Mar 30, 2010

  • vanishedone I can find dictionary references for both moonstruck and moon-stricken, but moonstrike seems not to have come into being except as the name of a B.B.C. television series. Presumably because only the moon can render people moonstruck, which it just does by striking them. Jan 14, 2009

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