moonlighted
moonlighted adjective: illuminated by moonlight. Also the simple past and past participle of moonlight.
Adjective
moonlighted (not comparable)
- Illuminated by moonlight.
- “It came downstairs as I went up,” said the trooper, “and crossed the moonlighted window with a loose black mantle on […]”1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, “chapter 52”, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC
- I sat for hours afterwards, gazing out of the cavern entrance at the moonlighted grove, silent and desolate beyond any telling.1907, Upton Sinclair, The Overman, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., page 41
Also used as
moonlighted is also the simple past and past participle of moonlight.
Synonyms of moonlighted
Forms of moonlighted
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Origin of moonlighted
From moon + lighted.
From moonlight + -ed.
Questions about moonlighted
- What does moonlighted mean?
- Moonlighted means illuminated by moonlight.
- What part of speech is moonlighted?
- Moonlighted is an adjective.
Words near moonlighted in the dictionary
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