Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Dazed or distracted with romantic sentiment.
- adj. Affected by insanity; crazed.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Affected or regarded as affected in mind or health by the light of the moon; lunatic; crazed; dazed.
Wiktionary
- adj. obsolete crazy or insane when affected by the phases of the Moon.
- adj. by extension Showing irrational behaviour, especially of a romantic or sentimental nature.
- adj. obsolete Made sick, or (like fishes) unsuitable for food, by the supposed influence of the Moon.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Mentally affected or deranged by the supposed influence of the moon; lunatic.
- adj. Produced by the supposed influence of the moon.
- 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
- adj. insane and believed to be affected by the phases of the moon
Etymologies
- moon + struck (Wiktionary)
- From the belief that the moon caused insanity. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Dick was not "moonstruck," but he had a manly regard for Dora that did him credit.”
The Rover Boys on Treasure Isle or The Strange Cruise of the Steam Yacht.
“He can say of Johnson that he was "moonstruck," but it is from no lofty height of fancied superiority, but he uses the word as a naturalist uses a term to describe an object he loves.”
“Again Matthew uses the word best translated as "moonstruck" to describe the patient's condition.”
“Kate was still staring at him, a moonstruck expression on her face.”
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“On that evening, I hoped my children were moonstruck, like me, and that they might be recalling another magical night we had shared, long ago.”
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“Like a moonstruck teenager, McCain was smitten overnight with Palin.”
“We can has partee wif firemenz an martoonies an moonstruck chonklits an eberyfing?”
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“Just as the male fruit fly looks rather ridiculous doing his courtship dance for the female, there is nothing so absurd as a moonstruck male wooing a woman by rhyming "moon" and "June.”
“The way Shakespeare wrote it, the moonstruck lovers Romeo and Juliet are to seal their amorous intentions with a kiss.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘moonstruck’.
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®emovies
Movies or TV shows where the titles are also common words, generally one-word titles.
lost, alien, bug, elephant, siege, gladiator, flock, captivity, piano, roots, freaks, moonstruck and 269 more...
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Words that are also movies
Unabashedly stolen from a comment made by courier12.
vertigo, serendipity, casablanca, psycho, jaws, fantasia, stagecoach, network, rocky, giant, platoon, unforgiven and 285 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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lunacy
moon-related
moon dog, transient lunar p..., selenography, moonbow, paraselene, maria, parantiselene, moon, luna, trapper's moon, harvest moon, hunter's moon and 94 more...
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Bonkers
List for old and new terms and phrases meaning crazy, nuts, batty, prone to extreme nervousness, etc.
bonkers, crazy, nuts, batty, batchy, bats in the belfry, scatty, crackers, windy, gone crackers, cracked, dingo and 92 more...
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Words For Novel
viridity, effigy, paragon, congested, acrid, lilting, clandestine, plethora, accolade, sardonic, naïve, reckoning and 285 more...
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Movies I've Seen
There's a jar I've been adding movie ticket stubs to since about age twelve. I am pleased to have a more accessible way of keeping track of the movies I've seen. Even if some are pretty embarrassin...
ghostbusters, amadeus, miller's crossing, no reservations, hoot, insomnia, master and commander, the matrix, o brother, where ..., night of the comet, the dark knight, tropic thunder and 489 more...
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Wordplay
reticent, slammerkin, moonstruck, zephyr, gallivant, hullabaloo, pandemonium, equestrian, wallflower, martyr, threadbare, treacherous and 180 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, M
metamerism, malady, margin, marauder, maverick, mercury, mirth, mandible, macerate, meteor, manumission, mica and 292 more...
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kant's Words
mandrágora, doppelganger, sinestesia, baladí, adriático, chanson, correveidile, angster, dèja vu, otredad, grasshopper, republic and 1074 more...
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describe me
charming, afectionate, addictive, selfless, patience, drastic, fond, light-heeled, fragrant, delicate, care-free, natural and 95 more...
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♡LOVE and things like it♡
dedicated to my man Steven, without whom i would be addicted to drugs, lying in a gutter, hating myself, or hooking somewhere :)
affectionate, amative, amatory, amiable, ammophilous, amorous, ardent, attached to, attracted to, beloved, bewitching, bitten and 404 more...
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fliti's Words
panache, mushaboom, aubergine, serpentine, glimpse, schadenfreude, syzygy, plethora, zeitgeist, defenestrate, callipygian, ubiquitous and 239 more...
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Mad as a March hare
Words to describe the mad, the insane, the... well, me.
unhinged, unglued, mental, fruitcake, lunatic, nutter, potty, dippy, kooky, batty, daft, cuckoo and 20 more...
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loonie
Inspired by Peter Reading's "Euphemisms".
crackers, potty, loony, bonkers, nutty, screwy, ga-ga, dull, strange, do-lally, dopey, silly and 83 more...
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Wordstruck
awestruck, horrorstruck, heartstruck, light-struck, lovestruck, moonstruck, pain-struck, panic-struck, stage-struck, star-struck, sun-struck, terror-struck and 3 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for moonstruck.

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