Definitions for mossy
ˈmɔ si, ˈmɒs imossy

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. moss-grown, mossyadjective

   overgrown with moss

2. fogyish, moss-grown, mossy, stick-in-the-mud(p), stodgyadjective

   (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned

   "moss-grown ideas about family life"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. mossyadjective

   Covered in or overgrown with moss.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Mossyadjective

   Overgrown with moss; covered with moss.

   Etymology: from moss.

   Old trees are more mossy far than young; for that the sap is not so frank as to rise all to the boughs, but tireth by the way, and putteth out moss. Francis Bacon, Nat. Hist.

   The mossy fountains and the Sylvan shades
   Delight no more. Alexander Pope, Messiah.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Mossy

   overgrown with moss; abounding with or edged with moss; as, mossy trees; mossy streams

2. Mossy

   resembling moss; as, mossy green

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of mossy in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of mossy in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of mossy in a Sentence

1. Mehmet Murat ildan:

   Sometimes you lose your way; you walk in the twilight of a forest; and suddenly you see an old but a beautiful house. And that old mossy house is a good quotation! It is old because it has wisdom; it is beautiful because it gives you a hope!

2. Gez Robinson:

   We just let the top half of the garden go wild and installed log piles, i worked all through the lockdown but spent lots of time in our garden. I came across these two mouse families at either ends of the garden. One group lives under some old decking, and the other lives in a little mossy hill near an old shed.

3. George Mac Donald:

   He took his key. It turned in the lock to the sounds of Aeolian music. A door opened upon slow hinges, and disclosed a winding stair within. The key vanished from his fingers. Tangle went up. Mossy followed. The door closed behind them. They climbed out of the earth; and, still climbing, rose above it. They were in the rainbow. Far abroad, over ocean and land, they could see through ours transparent walls the earth beneath their get. Stairs beside stairs wound up together, and beautiful beings of all ages climbed along with them. They knew that they were going up to the country whence the shadows fall And by this time I think they must have got there.

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