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[ UK /mˈɒsi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned
    moss-grown ideas about family life
  2. overgrown with moss

How To Use mossy In A Sentence

  • Statues of the Buddha were mossy, furred with green.
  • Iceland is a land of extremes: milky-blue geothermal waters steaming in vast expanses of hardened lava next to bright green mossy hills and waterfalls.
  • Hardwood trees stretched out of sight towards the distant sky; five-fingered orchids crawled up their trunks, and huge ferns spilled over their roots across the mossy path.
  • One day she sat musing by a forest fountain, dressed in a robe of yellow silk, wantonly plucking the flowers which grew on the mossy parapet of the spring and binding them into a bouquet for the Clerk of Mezlean.
  • Who of that fierce company brought the trooper to his end we never knew, but when M'Iver and I got down to the level he was dead as knives could make him, and his horse, more mad than ever, was disappearing over a mossy moor with a sky-blue lochan in the midst of it. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
  • He made sure he wasn't being watched and leaped over the veranda, landing with a soft thud on the mossy ground.
  • Goldenrod and asters fringed the mossy walls. Little Women
  • Forget any romantic notions of setting horse hair traps for rabbits in the pale dawn and then settling down to tickle trout from the mossy banks of the stream.
  • They are usually found in the mossy undergrowth in woods but we've found them right by the roadside.
  • Red couches - almost unseen amidst the browns, beiges, mossy greens and taupes of the late '90s - are making their way into living rooms across the U.S.
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