What does gibbous mean?
Gibbous means Curved or bulged outward..
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/ˈɡɪbəs/ · adjective
Curved or bulged outward..
In fact, what these gibbous human shapes specially represented was ready money—money insistently ready [...]
The moving moon, full, gibbous, or crescent-shaped, shone at last for the navigators of the eighteenth century like a luminous hand on the clock of heaven.
On December 7, 1972, the Apollo 17 astronauts took a photograph of a gibbous Earth at a distance of eighteen thousand miles from its surface.
A pointed flinty rock, all bare and black, Grew gibbous from behind the mountain's back;
Use gibbous when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Gibbous means Curved or bulged outward..
Common synonyms include bulging, convex, crookbacked, humpbacked.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
In fact, what these gibbous human shapes specially represented was ready money—money insistently ready [...]
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