What does moorish mean?
Moorish means (now rare) Of ground, soil etc: boggy, marshy..
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/ˈmɔːɹɪʃ/ · adjective
(now rare) Of ground, soil etc: boggy, marshy..
[G]low-worms, fire-drakes, meteors, ignis fatuus […] with many such that appear in moorish grounds, about churchyards, moist valleys, or where battles have been fought […] .
Make heauen to frowne and euery fixed ſtarre To ſucke vp poiſon from the Mooriſh Fens, And poure it in this glorious Tyrants throat.
He recommended to me to plant a considerable part of a large moorish farm which I had purchased, and he made several calculations of the expence and profit: for he delighted in exercising his mind on the science of numbers.
The Lent term had pulled me down, a week of modest enjoyment thereafter in town had finished the work; and I drank in the sharp moorish air like a thirsty man who has been forwandered among deserts.
Use moorish when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Moorish means (now rare) Of ground, soil etc: boggy, marshy..
Common synonyms include moory, quaggy, swampy, moorish architecture.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[G]low-worms, fire-drakes, meteors, ignis fatuus […] with many such that appear in moorish grounds, about churchyards, moist valleys, or where battles have been fought […] .
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