moonful
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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
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Definition of moonful
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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(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
-
(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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(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
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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.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From moon + -ful.
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