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View synonyms for moonstruck

moonstruck

[ moon-struhk ]

adjective

  1. mentally deranged, supposedly by the influence of the moon; crazed.
  2. dreamily romantic or bemused.


moonstruck

/ ˈmuːnˌstrɪkən; ˈmuːnˌstrʌk /

adjective

  1. deranged or mad
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of moonstruck1

First recorded in 1665–75; moon + struck
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Example Sentences

How did this happen to the man who starred in cinematic gems like Moonstruck, Honeymoon in Vegas, Raising Arizona and Valley Girl?

As for Americans who espouse the Tea Party in any way: Why, they're overwrought, moonstruck psychos; in a word, insane.

He won the Academy Award for his script for the 1987 film, Moonstruck.

The driver regarded them as a moonstruck couple, since that sort of moon shines ever on fine evenings by the sea.

Mediocrity had only seen the gawky stripling, with his moonstruck air, and pestilent habit of trying some new crotchet.

But he must have done something wrong, or perhaps the bobcat he followed had not been sufficiently moonstruck.

Dissatisfied, she turned back to Newlin and again the moonstruck eyes probed and assessed him.

Whereupon Mr. Kinglake mewed like a moonstruck cat going to be made a mummy of for Bubastis.

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