moon-struck adj. 1. crazed, crazy, mad, maddened, lunatic, lunatical, insane, demented, deranged; dazed, moon-stricken, possessed, infatuated; of unsound mind, Latin, non compos mentis, mentally ill; daft, Inf. daffy, unbalanced, touched, Inf. unglued, Inf. half-baked, Brit. SI. bonkers, Brit. SI. barmy, unhinged, distracted; brainsick, SI. kooky, SI. meshuga; U.S. SI. balmy, dippy, batty, bats, cuckoo, buggy, bughouse, bugs, screwy, wacky, wacko, goofy, loony, squirrelly, bananas, nuts, nutty, nutty as a fruitcake.
2. out of one's head or mind or senses or wits, Scot. redwood, SI. loco, mad as a hatter, mad as a March hare, far-gone, stark raving mad; not all there, not quite right, not right upstairs; Inf. out in left field, SI. in outer space, SI. in orbit, Inf. off the wall; Inf. cracked, Inf. mental, SI. off one's rocker, SI. out of one's tree, SI. off one's trolley, Brit. SI. off one's chump.
3. hysterical, delirious, maniacal, madding, Archaic. wood; frantic, frenzied, frenetic; ranting, raving, storming, foaming at the mouth; beside oneself, at one's wit's end; out of control, uncontrollable, cory-bantic, Inf. haywire, berserk, rabid, wild.
4. absurd, silly, inane, fatuous, crackbrained, foolish; irrational, wild-eyed, illogical, unreasonable; senseless, nonsensical, ridiculous, ludicrous; asinine, anserine, idiotic, Inf. moronic, imbecilic; childish, puerile, immature.
5. stupid, simple-minded, bird-brained, feebleminded, dull-witted; harebrained, light-minded, lightheaded, giddy; rambling, driveling, wandering, incoherent; scatterbrained, absent-minded; confused, bewildered, hazy, muddled, bemused.
6. odd, peculiar, queer, bizarre, strange, anomalous, Chiefly Brit. Inf. potty, Inf. dotty, Inf. crackpot; abnormal, aberrant, irregular, deviant, perverse.
moor1, n. heath, wasteland, moorland, Scot. and North Eng. fell; upland, plateau, tableland, mesa, wold; open country, prairie, grassland, veld, meadow, meadowland, pasture, pasturage, grazing land; (used esp. in Southern England) downs, savannah, (both in South America) pampas, campo; plain, flat, steppe, tundra, champaign; bush, scrub, scrubland; marsh, bog, swamp, Brit. fen.
moor2, v. secure, fix firmly, anchor; fasten, tie up, bind, hitch, tether, picket.
moory, adj. scrubby, barren, bare, waste; open, campestral, champaign, flat, level; low, marshy, swampy, boggy, fenny, quaggy, muddy, miry, poachy, paludal.
moot, adj. 1. debatable, disputable, arguable, confutable, refutable; questionable, doubtful, dubious, controvertible, contestable; open to discussion or question, in question, at issue, controversial; undetermined, unestablished, unresolved, unsettled, undecided; doubted, contested, questioned, under a cloud, under suspicion, suspect, suspicious.
2. theoretical, hypothetical, conjectural, speculative; problematical, notional, postulatory, suppositional; ideal, impractical, academic, armchair.
-v. 3. introduce, bring up, put before, proffer;
present, set forth, pose, propose, propound, postulate, posit; broach, advance, submit, put forward, make a motion.
4. dispute, discuss, debate, argue, polemicize; contend, plead, litigate, Rare, discept, ventilate, reason about.
mop, n. 1. swab, swabber, sponge mop; duster,
dust mop, dry mop.
2. Slang, crop, mass, mat, thatch; head of hair, shock, shag, mane, crine.
-v. 3. swab, scrub, wash, sponge, wipe, clean;
dust, whisk, sweep.
mope, v. 1. brood, pout, sulk, pine, fret, grump; moue, Brit, mump, grimace, mow, grouch; ache,
