Definitions for gibbous

gibbous gib·bous

Spelling: [gib-uh s]
IPA: /ˈgɪb əs/

Gibbous is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 83 anagrams from letters in gibbous (bbgiosu).

Definitions for gibbous

adjective

  1. Astronomy. (of a heavenly body) convex at both edges, as the moon when more than half full.
  2. humpbacked.

Origin of gibbous

1350-1400; Middle English Latin gibbōsus humped, equivalent to gibb(a) hump + -ōsus -ous

Examples for gibbous

The night was clear, and a gibbous moon was high in the sky.

"It was gibbous, you know," Mary explained, very technical and scientific.

A gibbous moon brightened the sky and silvered the slopes about me.

The esculent variety, in Europe, is the common green or gibbous frog, the Rana esculenta of Linnus.

Steep and gibbous behind, becoming at length smooth and equal.

The moon was gibbous in its approach to the full when the boat left Vicksburg.

If she were white, she might pass for a Caucasian, but for that gibbous under-lip.

Over the top of the great ranges a gibbous moon rose slowly.

gibbous, more tumid at one place or on one side than the other.

Under the stars, under the gibbous moon, assuredly they would sleep.

Word Value for gibbous
Scrable

12

Words with friends

16

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