Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling the Moon, or a moon

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  • adjective resembling the moon in shape

Etymologies

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moon +‎ -like

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Examples

  • Tara recognized the Queen of Pentacles, with a moonlike face, carved with high cheekbones.

    Rogue Oracle 2011

  • Tara recognized the Queen of Pentacles, with a moonlike face, carved with high cheekbones.

    Rogue Oracle 2011

  • The 2009 robotics competition, dubbed "Lunacy," required designing and building robots that would ally with others to collect balls ("moon rocks") on a slippery ("moonlike") surface.

    Celebrity Geeks Robert P. Crease 2011

  • Her eyes were instantly riveted on one particular face staring out moonlike from between curtains of dark hair.

    Unearthly Asylum P. J. Bracegirdle 2010

  • They seeded the main thoroughfare, a dirt road with moonlike craters, with land mines.

    U.S. training Afghan villagers to fight the Taliban 2010

  • Her eyes were instantly riveted on one particular face staring out moonlike from between curtains of dark hair.

    Unearthly Asylum P. J. Bracegirdle 2010

  • They seeded the main thoroughfare, a dirt road with moonlike craters, with land mines.

    U.S. training Afghan villagers to fight the Taliban 2010

  • Asleep in the darkened hotel suite, her face appears gentle and moonlike, nothing like it does when she is awake.

    The Lady Matador’s Hotel Cristina García 2010

  • There was a thick, moonlike twelve on her forehead.

    CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Skin Deep Jerome Preisler 2010

  • Bernie had all these strange ideas about the moonlike it had no light of its own and had once been part of the earthbut all I knew was that it did things to me; hard to explain, but I felt my sharpest in moonlight.

    Dog on It Spencer Quinn 2009

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