Moonful vs Moanful - What's the difference?
moonful | moanful |
Marked by the presence of the moon.
* 1986 , Steve Erickson, Rubicon Beach , Open Road Integrated Media (2013), ISBN 9781480409934,
* 2008 , Thomas Glave, The Torturer's Wife , City Lights Books (2008), ISBN 9780872864665,
* 2008 , Susan Zwinger & Ann Zwinger, "Learning Nature Through the Senses", in Teaching About Place: Learning from the Land , University of Nevada Press (2008), ISBN 9780874177329,
Resembling the moon in some manner, such as being round, bright, etc.
* 1866 , Andrew Wynter, "Distinguished Settlers from Abroad", Good Words , 1 January 1866,
* 2002 , James Webb, Lost Soldiers , Dell (2002), ISBN 0440240913,
* 2009 , Jake Packard, The Manhattan Prophet , Bascom Hill Publishing Group (2009), ISBN 9781935098058,
An amount sufficient to fill the moon.
* 1865 , "Wilhelm Meisters Apprenticeship", The Atlantic Monthly , October 1865,
* 2001 , (Radiohead), "(Pyramid Song)", :
* 2003 , Robert A. Metzger, Picoverse , Ace Books (2003), ISBN 9780441010301,
As adjectives the difference between moonful and moanful
is that moonful is marked by the presence of the moon while moanful is full of moaning; expressing sorrow.As a noun moonful
is an amount sufficient to fill the moon.moonful
English
Adjective
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- 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.
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- 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:
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- 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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- The cattle-shed is equally curious, containing specimens of the genus Bos, the Brahmin cattle with their mild moonful eyes,
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- Muir sipped the last of his coffee, his moonful face breaking into a knowing grin.
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- There was a new respect or at least a curiosity in his limpid, moonful face as he reached me.
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- 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
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- The number of calculations became boundless; not even a moonful of machinery would be able to track and predict the trajectories.
