Crossword clues for moonstruck
moonstruck
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Moonstruck \Moon"struck`\ (m[=oo]n"str[u^]k`), a.
Mentally affected or deranged by the supposed influence of the moon; lunatic.
Produced by the supposed influence of the moon. ``Moonstruck madness.''
--Milton.Made sick by the supposed influence of the moon, as a human being; made unsuitable for food, as fishes, by such supposed influence.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context obsolete English) crazy or insane when affected by the phases of the Moon. 2 (context by extension English) Showing irrational behaviour, especially of a romantic or sentimental nature. 3 (context obsolete English) Made sick, or (like fishes) unsuitable for food, by the supposed influence of the Moon.
WordNet
adj. insane and believed to be affected by the phases of the moon [syn: lunatic]
Wikipedia
Moonstruck is a 1987 American romantic comedy film directed by Norman Jewison and written by John Patrick Shanley. It stars Cher, Nicolas Cage, Danny Aiello, Vincent Gardenia, and Olympia Dukakis.
The film was released on December 16, 1987 in New York City, and then nationally on December 18, 1987. Receiving largely positive reviews from critics, it went on to gross $91,640,528 at the North American box office, making it the fifth highest-grossing film of that year.
Moonstruck was nominated for six Oscars at the 60th Academy Awards, winning for Best Original Screenplay, Best Actress, and Best Supporting Actress.
Usage examples of "moonstruck".
The elemental was about fifty yards off the port bow, shaping itself a waterspout, a moonstruck column of blackness, from the placid surface of the sea.
It may be that there have been many moonstruck and misleading ideals that have from time to time perplexed mankind.
I hope to refer to this work hereafter, but just now I will only say that, after reading till one is tired the strange fancies of the squarers of the circle, the inventors of perpetual motion, and the rest of the moonstruck dreamers, most persons will confess to themselves that they have had notions as wild, conceptions as extravagant, theories as baseless, as the least rational of those which are here recorded.
Then, having correctly labeled them as moonstruck, it put its beaky face down and mumbled up a wild strawberry.
And then you risk the life of one of the best rabbits we've got, just to play nursey while you go wandering about like a moonstruck field mouse.