Gibbous is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for GIBBOUS in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• humpbacked, humped; (of a moon) between half and full, also GIBBOSE
• (of the moon) having the illuminated part greater than a semicircle and less than a circle.
• convex or protuberant
• (of the moon) between half and fully illuminated
• Swelling by a regular curve or surface; protuberant; convex; as, the moon is gibbous between the half-moon and the full moon.
• Hunched; hump-backed.
• characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column
• (used of the moon) more than half full
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• irregularly rounded

Words related to GIBBOUS

gibbose12 gibbously17 gibbousness16 gibbousnesses18

Words that contain GIBBOUS

gibbously17 gibbousness16 gibbousnesses18

How to use GIBBOUS in a sentence

• Mine are the night and morning, The pits of air, the gulf of space, The sportive sun, the gibbous moon, The innumerable days.
• A gibbous moon had set, and presently a fog rolled down the river, blotting out landscape and stars and making even these willows dim and unreal.
• The moon was gibbous, and only a few white, feathery clouds now and then drifted across its face.
• Under the stars, under the gibbous moon, assuredly they would sleep.
• Looking out during the night, I saw a misshapen gibbous moon, of a strange green-cheese color, setting between the four legs of a mule, whose body made an arched frame for it.
• At the other gibbous horn of this Athens of the Athabasca rise the steeples and convent-school of the Roman Church, with the free-trading-post of Colin Fraser.
• SONG OF NATURE Mine are the night and morning, The pits of air, the gulf of space, The sportive sun, the gibbous moon, The innumerable days.
• Cells ovoid, gibbous, much contracted towards the mouth.
• The gibbous moon still hangs in the sky and casts a feeble light over the scene.
• PHASES, the portions of the illuminated half of the moon or interior planet, as seen from the earth, called crescent, full, and gibbous.
• At this time Daniel Gibbous was about forty years old, and his wife about twenty-eight, she having been born on the ninth of the seventh month, 1787.

Similar words containing GIBBOU without suffix s

gibbously17 gibbousness16 gibbousnesses18

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