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Antonyms for moonlit
Grammar : Adj |
Spell : moon-lit |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈmunˌlɪt |
Definition of moonlit
Origin :- 1830 (first attested in Tennyson), from moon (n.) + lit.
- As in bright : adj shining, glowing in appearance
- As in irradiant : adj bright
- As in lucent : adj bright
- Upon looking around the moonlit room I found that I was alone.
- Extract from : « Biography of a Slave » by Charles Thompson
- "I think that I can see them yet," said Ford, peering down the moonlit road.
- Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
- So that is why you have been lying so quiet under the trees these moonlit nights!
- Extract from : « Buried Cities, Part 2 » by Jennie Hall
- Yet she did not go to the window to look into the moonlit night.
- Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown
- He passed out of the forest and into the moonlit open where were no shadows nor darknesses.
- Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London
- Through the trees the mouth of the alley could be seen, opening out on a moonlit glade.
- Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London
- I followed, not into the moonlit night, but through a cavernous opening into darkness.
- Extract from : « Wilfrid Cumbermede » by George MacDonald
- And then, in the evening, were moonlit walks with Mrs. Felix Lorraine!
- Extract from : « Vivian Grey » by Earl of Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli
- I watched his figure cross the moonlit path and enter the kitchen.
- Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 » by Various
- He saw him stride away along the drive and down the moonlit road.
- Extract from : « The Portygee » by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
Synonyms for moonlit
- ablaze
- aglow
- alight
- argent
- auroral
- beaming
- beamy
- blazing
- brilliant
- burning
- burnished
- coruscating
- dazzling
- effulgent
- flashing
- fulgent
- fulgid
- glaring
- gleaming
- glistening
- glittering
- glossy
- golden
- illuminated
- illumined
- incandescent
- intense
- irradiant
- irradiated
- lambent
- light
- lighted
- limpid
- lucent
- luminous
- lustrous
- mirrorlike
- moonlit
- phosphorescent
- polished
- radiant
- refulgent
- relucent
- resplendent
- scintillating
- shimmering
- shiny
- silvery
- sparkling
- sunlit
- sunny
- twinkling
- vivid
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