moonish

[ moo-nish ]

adjective

1. capricious; inconstant.
2. fully round or plump.

Other Words From

• moonish·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of moonish¹

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

The astronomers' lines are all spoken, and the moon people sing in "Moonish," an all-vowels language that Norman invented.

From Los Angeles Times

Scott is played by Michael Cera, perhaps the most sexually unthreatening male in the history of cinema, with a gentle, moonish face that makes him look like an early-60s Beatle.

From The Guardian

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

And cool-eyed primroses wide-diskéd bare, Frail stars of moonish haze, Contented lie wound in his breathing arms:— 'Tis meet that grief should mingle with the wan, That blue of calms and gloom of storms Reign on the burning throne of dawn To glorify the world.

From Project Gutenberg