unlunar

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ lunar

Adjective[edit]

unlunar (comparative more unlunar, superlative most unlunar)

  1. Not lunar.
    • 1857, Monthly Notices of the Astronomical Society of London, page 76:
      [] a minute blotch of very peculiar and unlunar-looking light appeared as if in front of the moon's edge, seemingly projected upon the lunar surface.
    • 2013, Martin Mobberley, It Came From Outer Space Wearing an RAF Blazer!, page 391:
      I described it as 'most unlunar and eyecatching'. The nearest I could come to describing it was that the colour was like that seen in ultraviolet sterilizing cupboards in the medical world.