different between gibbous vs gibbously
gibbous
English
Etymology
From Middle English, borrowed from Latin gibbus (“humped, hunched”), probably cognate with cub? (“bend oneself, lie down”), Italian gobba (“humpback”), Greek ????? (kýfos, “humpback, bent”), ????? (kývos, “cube, vertebra”), Spanish giboso (“humped”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???b?s/
- Rhymes: -?b?s
Adjective
gibbous (comparative more gibbous, superlative most gibbous)
- Characterized by convexity; protuberant.
- 1886, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge, chapter 22
- In fact, what these gibbous human shapes specially represented was ready money—money insistently ready [...]
- 1886, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge, chapter 22
- (astronomy) Phase of moon or planet between first quarter and full or between full and last quarter.
- Humpbacked.
- 1697, Dryden, Aeneid, book 8
- A pointed flinty rock, all bare and black,
- Grew gibbous from behind the mountain's back;
- 1697, Dryden, Aeneid, book 8
Antonyms
- crescent
Derived terms
- gibbous moon
Translations
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gibbously
English
Etymology
gibbous +? -ly
Adverb
gibbously (comparative more gibbously, superlative most gibbously)
- In a gibbous manner.
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