Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or suggestive of the moon or moonlight.
- adj. Moonlit.
- adj. Dreamy in mood or nature; absent-minded.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Like a moon. Crescent-shaped.
- Bearing or furnished with a crescent as an emblem, badge, or standard; having the crescent as a standard.
- Giving light like that of the moon; resembling moonlight.
- Lighted by the moon.
- Bewildered or silly, as if moonstruck; hazy.
- Sickly; of weak bodily constitution.
- Intoxicated; tipsy.
- n. A simpleton; a noodle.
Wiktionary
- adj. Resembling the moon.
- adj. Moonlit.
- adj. Absent-minded.
- n. The act of mooning.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to the moon.
- adj. Furnished with a moon; bearing a crescent.
- adj. colloq. Silly; weakly sentimental.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. lighted by moonlight
- adj. dreamy in mood or nature
Examples
“He said that he might as well have been called "moony" -- and he didn't go mooning about at all!”
“While we examined the formation, Furayj and old Sulaym, who became more and more "moony," ransacked the block in all directions, and notably failed to find a trace of mining.”
“Sure, love makes Bella a little moony and Edward a little emo – okay, a lot moony and a lot emo – but hello?”
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“That could explain all the moony looks Michael was giving me, too.”
“I felt foolish for my moony feelings about Mr. Soper when this woman, this cook, this very possible killer was loose.”
“Press play below for a glimpse of a moony-eyed SpongeBob in love.”
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“Her sensibilities were shaped by the fact that she was raised largely in the Canadian woods by “two environmentally-aware biologists, back when that was a pretty moony thing to be.””
“Then, in the evening, the group of them led by the pastor and a fellow named Manny, who was by day a pizza chef, gathered in a field under a cloudless, moony sky.”
“Though Andy is still "moony" over Nancy, Kirk says his character will find solace in Lindsay Sloane's new character, Maxeen, who first appeared last week as an eccentric artist who was impressed by Andy's willingness to jump into a sticky situation.”
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“He said it was nice to meet her and then gave her a big moony smile.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘moony’.
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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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Y
What a -Y does to an otherwise common, dull word
zany, waxy, wavy, arty, chewy, bony, boxy, cozy, nosy, foxy, wiry, junky and 321 more...
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JK Rowling's Magical Vocabulary
muggle, pensieve, boggart, animagus, grim, occlumency, polyjuice potion, howler, horcrux, deatheater, gryffindor, ravenclaw and 49 more...
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GRE Words
abjure, unswear, state, rescission, indemnification, ab, reny, abnegate, vitiated, vitiate, adumbrated, abash and 378 more...
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edes's Words
table talk, tuneful, bestrewn, determinate fashion, unpretending, personage, duly impressed, shirring, caw, hatchet job, gummy, comely and 225 more...
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The Jumblies
They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
In a Sieve they went to sea:
In spite of all their friends could say,
On a winter's morn, on a stormy day,
In a Sieve they went to...sieve, winter, morn, stormy, round, drowned, cried, aloud, button, fig, sea, far and 113 more...
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Poetrie: The Map
by Elizabeth Bishop
Land lies in water; it is shadowed green.
Shadows, or are they shallows, at its edges
showing the line of long sea-weeded ledges
where weeds hang ...map-maker, delicate, topography, character, colors, assigned, investigate, agitation, hare, conformation, mapped, smoothness and 23 more...
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mariemichelle's Words
acquiesce, insouciant, lackadaisical, introspective, quixotic, whimsical, bemused, moony, reverie, indolent, languid, lulling and 8 more...
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22 goblins
godavari river, abiding kingdom, king victory, king triple-victory, monk called patience, homage, treasurer, twelve years, sissoo tree, benares, mount kailasa, king valour and 73 more...
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To the Moon
lunar, half-moon, wane, eclipse, moonlight, mooned, moonshine, lunation, moonlike, mooning, moons, gibbous and 53 more...
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M is for Miss Scarlet
My M Words
macaroni, mad hatter, madcap, malarkey, margarita, marmalade, maverick, mekka-lekka hi me..., minx, miss scarlet, mister, mister splashy pants and 80 more...
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