What part of speech is moonlit?

Moonlit can be categorized as an adjective and a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. moonlit is a verb, past participle of moonlight (infinitive).
  • 2. moonlit is a verb, past simple of moonlight (infinitive).
  • 3. moonlit is an adjective.

Inflections

Verb

Adjective

  • Positive
    Comparative
    Superlative
  • more moonlit
    most moonlit
  • Positive: moonlit 
  • Comparative: more moonlit
  • Superlative: most moonlit

What does moonlit mean?

Definitions

Adjective

moonlit - lighted by moonlight; "the moonlit landscape"

Verb

moonlight - work a second job, usually after hours; "The law student is moonlighting as a taxi driver"

Examples of moonlit

#   Sentence  
1. adj. The moonlit landscape.
2. adj. The flatboat carrying the two silent men went on gliding atop the dark waters as the moonlit night slowly wore on.
3. adj. Howison in his "Sketches of Upper Canada" relates that on one moonlit Christmas Eve he saw an Indian creeping cautiously through the woods.
4. adj. Mary stepped out into the moonlit meadow.
5. adj. It was a moonlit night, and one of the sailors stood upon the round top; as I think they call it; he looked around to see if he could see any land.
6. adj. Tom and Mary took a stroll through the moonlit garden.
7. adj. A cool breeze blew around Mary, waving her long hair as she sat in the meadow, lost in thought and gazing up at the night sky and the silver moonlit clouds passing over it.
8. adj. With their fur coats tinged full of glistening silver and their shadows imbued with cobalt, the two foxes returned back to the forest under the moonlit night.
9. noun Moonlight is the smuggler's enemy.
10. verb Farmers often moonlight to supplement their incomes.
Sentence  
adj.
The moonlit landscape.
The flatboat carrying the two silent men went on gliding atop the dark waters as the moonlit night slowly wore on.
Howison in his "Sketches of Upper Canada" relates that on one moonlit Christmas Eve he saw an Indian creeping cautiously through the woods.
Mary stepped out into the moonlit meadow.
It was a moonlit night, and one of the sailors stood upon the round top; as I think they call it; he looked around to see if he could see any land.
Tom and Mary took a stroll through the moonlit garden.
A cool breeze blew around Mary, waving her long hair as she sat in the meadow, lost in thought and gazing up at the night sky and the silver moonlit clouds passing over it.
With their fur coats tinged full of glistening silver and their shadows imbued with cobalt, the two foxes returned back to the forest under the moonlit night.
noun
Moonlight is the smuggler's enemy.
verb
Farmers often moonlight to supplement their incomes.

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