gibbous
Collocations
5ADJ.
full, moving
VERB + GIBBOUS
call, photograph, see, shape, waning
GIBBOUS + NOUN
earth, human, moon
PREP.
through
ADV.
specially
Definitions
adj
Curved or bulged outward.
In fact, what these gibbous human shapes specially represented was ready money—money insistently ready [...]
Having more than half (but not the whole) of its disc illuminated.
The moving moon, full, gibbous, or crescent-shaped, shone at last for the navigators of the eighteenth century like a luminous hand on the clock of heaven.
On December 7, 1972, the Apollo 17 astronauts took a photograph of a gibbous Earth at a distance of eighteen thousand miles from its surface.
Humpbacked.
A pointed flinty rock, all bare and black, Grew gibbous from behind the mountain's back;
Thesaurus
Synonyms
adjective — (used of the moon) more than half full
- gibbose
adjective — characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality
- crookback
- crookbacked
- humped
- humpbacked
- hunchbacked
- kyphotic
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
6In fact, what these gibbous human shapes specially represented was ready money—money insistently ready [...]
WiktionaryThe moving moon, full, gibbous, or crescent-shaped, shone at last for the navigators of the eighteenth century like a luminous hand on the clock of heaven.
WiktionaryOn December 7, 1972, the Apollo 17 astronauts took a photograph of a gibbous Earth at a distance of eighteen thousand miles from its surface.
WiktionaryOnce more than half of the disc of the Moon is illuminated, it has a shape we call gibbous.
Tatoeba · #3961240The gibbous moon appears to grow fatter each night until we see the full sunlit face of the Moon. We call this phase the full moon.
Tatoeba · #3961245From the bed, I can clearly see the waning gibbous moon through the window.
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