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moony

[moo-nee] / ˈmu ni /
ADJECTIVE
dreamy
Synonyms
WEAK
abstracted astral calming chimerical daydreaming excellent fanciful fantastic gentle idealistic imaginary immaterial impractical intangible introspective introvertive lulling marvelous misty musing mythical nightmarish otherworldly out of this world pensive phantasmagoric phantasmagorical preoccupied quixotic relaxing shadowy soothing speculative unreal unsubstantial utopian vague visionary whimsical woolgathering

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There’s a look in his eye like a hungry mutt staring at a butcher shop window: pathetic and moony and flummoxed by how to get what he wants.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2025

The movie opens with a moony story from a woman who remembers, as a girl, buying one of the snowballs for about a dollar.

From New York Times • May 4, 2023

You should never fall in love with an investment, getting moony about how well it has done and letting the emotion of past success cloud your judgment and overcome reason.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 11, 2021

For anyone who’s followed the company from its rise to the ousting of its moony CEO Adam Neumann and the bungling of its IPO, this marks yet another crack in the company’s polished, perk-filled aesthetic.

From Slate • Jan. 29, 2020

The whites of his moony eyes grew large and misty as his mouth struggled yearningly and lost against the familiar, impregnable loneliness drifting in around him again like suffocating fog.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller