MOON AROUND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does moon around mean? 

• MOON AROUND (verb)
  The verb MOON AROUND has 2 senses:

1. be idle in a listless or dreamy way

2. be apathetic, gloomy, or dazed

  Familiarity information: MOON AROUND used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOON AROUND (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be idle in a listless or dreamy way

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

moon; moon around; moon on

Hypernyms (to "moon around" is one way to...):

idle; laze; slug; stagnate (be idle; exist in a changeless situation)

Sentence frame:

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Sense 2

Meaning:

Be apathetic, gloomy, or dazed

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

moon about; moon around; mope

Hypernyms (to "moon around" is one way to...):

be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))

Sentence frame:

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 Context examples 

After several years of analysis, a team of planetary scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has at last come up with an explanation for a mysterious moon around Neptune that they discovered with Hubble in 2013.

(Tiny Neptune Moon Spotted by Hubble May Have Broken from Larger Moon, NASA)