What's the difference between dreamy and moony?

Dreamy


Definition:

  • (superl.) Abounding in dreams or given to dreaming; appropriate to, or like, dreams; visionary.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) While there's no discernible forró influence in the dreamy 80s indie-guitar music of Fortaleza's Cidadão Instigado, they do take influence from popular local style brega, a 1970s and 80s Brazilian romantic pop music.
  • (2) I think, in all honestly, if I could be Bradley Whitford I would be very, very happy.” He becomes almost drawlingly dreamy, rolling his “r”s as he leans against the warm oolite cliffs of this Jurassic Coast, until rudely interrupted by me, asking whether there’s talk of a Broadchurch 3 .
  • (3) Debating issues such as unemployment benefits and the rehabilitation of prisoners, I was suddenly propelled into the role of standalone lefty whose views were brandished "dreamy" and "irrational".
  • (4) Jack is played with dreamy intensity and later (as the realities of criminal life begin to kick in) with steely resolve by LaBeouf, who must be able to sympathise with Jack's predicament.
  • (5) As she spoke, McAllister, leaning on a lectern sipping water, had the dreamy-eyed look of someone listening to a nightclub crooner.
  • (6) But Brief Encounter has survived such threats, because it is so well made, because Laura's voiceover narration is truly anguished and dreamy, because the music suckers all of us, and because Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard are perfect.
  • (7) Lunch had an effect on mood, with subjects feeling more lethargic, feeble, clumsy, muzzy, dreamy, bored and mentally slow after the meal.
  • (8) Besides the latter movement disorders, "dreamy state", episodic amnesia ("ictal" amnesia) and amnestic "black out" as transient memory disorders have been observed.
  • (9) Nitrous oxide produced a variety of subjective effects, including some that are characteristic of psychedelic drugs, such as happy, euphoric mood changes, changes in body awareness and image, alterations of time perception, and experiences of a dreamy, detached reverie state.
  • (10) Or the dreamy sex expert inspired by the time Demetriou swiped right on Tinder.
  • (11) Politics are just one element in a dreamy, flowing landscape with no clear boundaries.
  • (12) ADD-H children were more day-dreamy and lethargic by teacher report, more impaired in perceptual-motor speed, and had more anxiety disorders among their relatives than did ADD+H children.
  • (13) Memory troubles like dreamy-state are due to a simultaneous impairment of some neo-cortical areas and of Ammon's horn.
  • (14) But if the meaning was a little vague, the clothes were pretty, and played the good-guys in this dystopian vision, with butter-wouldn’t-melt artist-smock shapes in dreamy chambray and broderie anglaise.
  • (15) Pentazocine, 45 mg intramuscularly, caused deterioration in tracking performance and was followed by reports of depression, gloominess, dreaminess, nausea, and injection site pain.
  • (16) In many ways, Comfort feels like a night-time counterpart to last year's dreamy Playin' Me by Cooly G, another debut album from a cutting-edge London producer overlooked by the Mercury panel: this year's shortlist may feature more dance albums than ever, but it's evident that those in charge simply don't know where to look beyond those whose commercial success makes them unignorable (Rudimental, Disclosure), or those that offer polite, 6music-friendly takes on dancefloor innovations of eight years ago (Jon Hopkins).
  • (17) It induces euphoria, a feeling of pleasant dreaminess.
  • (18) Six years ago, this dreamy spot drew British couple Emma and Ben Heywood to what would become Villa Miela, an old stone house they converted into the base for their Undiscovered Montenegro activity holidays.
  • (19) I even had a dreamy doctor boyfriend – a mastectomy specialist, not a gynecologist like Jon Fielding – who was ultimately unnerved by my growing contempt for the closet.
  • (20) He transformed Montreal from a provincial town to a global city, with a combination of dreamy ideas and tough-mindedness.

Moony


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the moon.
  • (a.) Furnished with a moon; bearing a crescent.
  • (a.) Silly; weakly sentimental.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Experience: I escaped from the Moonies Read more I don’t feel sorry for her.
  • (2) Pakistan Name: Moonis Elahi Offshore company: Olive Grove Assets Ltd Details: Elahi is a politician from a prominent Punjab dynasty.
  • (3) I have never regretted my time in the Moonies, but I’m relieved I found the courage to escape.
  • (4) Man on the Wire opens with cosmic chanting, like a prayer meeting between the Moonies and the MC5 on Mars.
  • (5) They were the Moonies, named after their Korean founder Sun Myung Moon , and they were operating from a farmhouse just outside Reading.
  • (6) After a spell in the Royal Marines, and a dalliance with the Moonies in Thailand, Gough spent nearly 20 years in his native Eastleigh, Hampshire.
  • (7) It's like being the one non-believer in a convention of Moonies.
  • (8) In Pakistan, Moonis Elahi, a politician from a prominent Punjab dynasty who was acquitted in a Pakistan court in 2011 of receiving payments in a corruption scandal, said he did not own offshore company Olive Grove Assets, listed to his name at the family residence in Lahore.
  • (9) A crucial test of a new religion is whether it transfers to the next generation after its founder's demise, and with the death of the Rev Sun Myung Moon, at 92 after suffering from pneumonia, the prospects for his Unification church – or "Moonies" – look poor.
  • (10) Still, it all felt like an enormous risk: I believed everything the Moonies told me, particularly the threat in the movement’s teachings that if you left, you exposed yourself to losing control of your life.
  • (11) Lords and their lobbyists • Lord Moonie sponsored a pass for Robin Ashby, the director general of the UK Defence Forum, who was once stripped of his parliamentary pass after press interest.
  • (12) But the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, founder of the Unification Church – whose followers became known as "Moonies" – managed to shed the mantle of suspicion and ridicule to become a friend of political and religious leaders before his death in South Korea on Sunday, aged 92.
  • (13) Robin Ashby, a defence lobbyist who was stripped of his parliamentary pass for lobbying, has been given a pass by the former Labour minister, Lord Moonie.
  • (14) A 2012 investigation into Jang’s activities by Christianity Today claimed that documentary evidence indicated he was once “involved in” the Unification Church of the Rev Sun Myung Moon – whose followers became known as “Moonies” in the 1970s and 80s – and taught at one of its schools.
  • (15) In the increasing political row which erupted that year about the administration's support for the contras in Nicaragua, Kirkpatrick agreed to head a campaign organised by the Unification Church (the Moonies) to raise money for the anti-Sandinista rebels.
  • (16) Much of my time was spent travelling between Moonie centres along the east coast, preaching on the street corners of nearby towns and helping to establish new communities.
  • (17) She described how a female Trump supporter turned around, pulled down her trousers and “did a fully on moony”.
  • (18) The Moonies, the Manson Family, Jonestown, and the Scientologists?

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