moonish

American  

[moo-nish] / ˈmu nɪʃ /

adjective

1. capricious; inconstant.

2. fully round or plump.

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Other Word Forms

• moonishly adverb

Etymology

Origin of moonish

First recorded in 1375–1425, moonish is from the late Middle English word monish. See moon, -ish ¹

Example Sentences

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

Ay! if you loved her, would your eyes have miss'd The moonish faintness that o'erlaps her now, Melting the fresh, full, ruddy glow of health To loveliness most heavenly, yet most sad?

From Poems by Cassels, Walter Richard

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)

When the sound had passed, his face again grew blank and moonish and he stepped within.

From The Judge by West, Rebecca