moonish
Americanadjective
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capricious; inconstant.
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fully round or plump.
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of moonish
First recorded in 1375–1425, moonish is from the late Middle English word monish. See moon, -ish 1
Example Sentences
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Gyllenhaal’s soft, moonish features, capable of collapsing into melancholy or hardening and sharpening in resolve, have rarely been less predictably used.
From The Guardian • Oct. 12, 2018
In the fall of 1939 a young man with a moonish, almost childish face flew his single-engined Beechcraft airplane from New York to Boston, where he huddled with savants at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
From Time Magazine Archive
“The surest thing you know,” he said with a rather moonish smile.
From The Prairie Mother by Becher, Arthur E.
When the sound had passed, his face again grew blank and moonish and he stepped within.
From The Judge by West, Rebecca
Wells treated the moon as a globe, like our own; bringing forth monsters as moonish as we are earthy.
From The Victorian Age in Literature by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
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