moonlitadj.
/ˈmuːnlɪt/, U.S. /ˈmunˌlɪt/ Illuminated by the moon; bathed in or flooded with moonlight.
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the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [adjective] > resembling moonlight > moonlit
moonlight1584
moonshine1587
moonshiny1602
moonshining1638
moony1648
moonlit1783
moon-bright1790
moonlighted1811
mooned1831
moon-litten1845
1783 in H. Meziere Elmar & Ethlinda 56 Along the moon-lit shore,—a dreary waste,—no peaceful Indian watch'd her rising orb.
1804 Monthly Mirror May 342 Night silent comes;..Tilt half enchains wi' rugged hand His moon-lit wave.
1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna v. i. 93 The City's moon-lit spires and myriad lamps.
1830 Ld. Tennyson Recoll. Arab. Nights iii, in Poems 49 The sloping of the moonlit sward.
1883 Good Words 24 112 She stood on deck, watching the moonlit sea.
1929 M. Lief Hangover 235 He was crazy in love with her and one moonlit night he proposed to her.
1967 W. Golding Pyramid (1969) 80 The sky was clear and moonlit and cold.
1983 S. Cooper Seaward vi. 48 She stood looking out at the shadowed grey-white moonlit world.
2001 P. Dickinson Ropemaker (2003) viii. 155 Below her the wall dropped dizzyingly down,..and beyond that the moonlit roofs of the outer city reached away.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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