moonful

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Definition of moonful

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Marked by the presence of the moon.
    “Near-synonym: moonlit”
    “She sobbed herself to sleep and then dreamed she was walking on a beach on a moonful night, a strange but distantly known city on the horizon.”
    “Yet let it also be known that long before that dire time, on a future moonful night, a voice shall rise up out of the yawning sea and recall it: […]”
    “I, Susan, remember dressing exotically, eating organic foods, and exploring the duende of deep flamenco passion, playing the guitar on hilltops on moonful nights.”
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adj

  1. (not-comparable)Marked by the presence of the moon.
    “Near-synonym: moonlit”
    “She sobbed herself to sleep and then dreamed she was walking on a beach on a moonful night, a strange but distantly known city on the horizon.”
    “Yet let it also be known that long before that dire time, on a future moonful night, a voice shall rise up out of the yawning sea and recall it: […]”
    “I, Susan, remember dressing exotically, eating organic foods, and exploring the duende of deep flamenco passion, playing the guitar on hilltops on moonful nights.”
  2. (not-comparable)Resembling the moon in some manner, such as being round, bright, etc.
    “The cattle-shed is equally curious, containing specimens of the genus Bos, the Brahmin cattle with their mild moonful eyes, […]”
    “Muir sipped the last of his coffee, his moonful face breaking into a knowing grin.”
    “There was a new respect or at least a curiosity in his limpid, moonful face as he reached me.”

noun

  1. An amount sufficient to fill the moon.
    “For suggestion of what one may really do, and for impelling one toward the practicable best, I find this book worth a moonful of " Consuelos."”
    “I jumped in the river, what did I see? / Black-eyed angels swam with me / A moonful of stars and astral cars / And all the figures I used to see”
    “The number of calculations became boundless; not even a moonful of machinery would be able to track and predict the trajectories.”

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Etymology

From moon + -ful.

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