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MOSSY

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 I. (adjective) 

Comparative and superlative

Comparative: mossier  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

Superlative: mossiest  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

Sense 1

Meaning:

(used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashionedplay

Example:

moss-grown ideas about family life

Synonyms:

fogyish; moss-grown; mossy; stick-in-the-mud; stodgy

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

unfashionable; unstylish (not in accord with or not following current fashion)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Overgrown with mossplay

Synonyms:

moss-grown; mossy

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

covered (overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form)

Derivation:

moss (tiny leafy-stemmed flowerless plants)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Goldenrod and asters fringed the mossy walls.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I remember something, too, of the green grave-mounds; and I have not forgotten, either, two figures of strangers straying amongst the low hillocks and reading the mementoes graven on the few mossy head-stones.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

They clung to the purple moors behind and around their dwelling—to the hollow vale into which the pebbly bridle-path leading from their gate descended, and which wound between fern-banks first, and then amongst a few of the wildest little pasture-fields that ever bordered a wilderness of heath, or gave sustenance to a flock of grey moorland sheep, with their little mossy- faced lambs:—they clung to this scene, I say, with a perfect enthusiasm of attachment.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

As we advanced and left the track, we trod a soft turf, mossy fine and emerald green, minutely enamelled with a tiny white flower, and spangled with a star-like yellow blossom: the hills, meantime, shut us quite in; for the glen, towards its head, wound to their very core.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)




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