gibbous vs hunchbacked what difference
what is difference between gibbous and hunchbacked
English
Etymology
From Middle English, borrowed from Latin gibbus (“humped, hunched”), probably cognate with cubō (“bend oneself, lie down”), Italian gobba (“humpback”), Greek κύφος (kýfos, “humpback, bent”), κύβος (kývos, “cube, vertebra”), Spanish giboso (“humped”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡɪbəs/
- Rhymes: -ɪbəs
Adjective
gibbous (comparative more gibbous, superlative most gibbous)
- Characterized by convexity; protuberant.
- 1886, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge, chapter 22
- In fact, what these gibbous human shapes specially represented was ready money—money insistently ready […]
- 1886, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge, chapter 22
- (astronomy) Phase of moon or planet between first quarter and full or between full and last quarter.
- Humpbacked.
- 1697, Dryden, Aeneid, book 8
- A pointed flinty rock, all bare and black,
- Grew gibbous from behind the mountain’s back;
- 1697, Dryden, Aeneid, book 8
Antonyms
- crescent
Derived terms
- gibbous moon
Translations
English
Etymology
hunchback + -ed
Adjective
hunchbacked (comparative more hunchbacked, superlative most hunchbacked)
- Having an abnormally curved or hunched back
Synonyms
- humpbacked
- kyphotic
Translations
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