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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column;
[syn: crookback, crookbacked, humped, humpbacked, hunchbacked, gibbous, kyphotic]

2. (used of the moon) more than half full;
[syn: gibbous, gibbose]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Gibbous \Gib"bous\, a. [Cf. F. gibbeux. See Gibbose.] [1913 Webster] 1. Swelling by a regular curve or surface; protuberant; convex; as, the moon is gibbous between the half-moon and the full moon. [1913 Webster] The bones will rise, and make a gibbous member. --Wiseman. [1913 Webster] 2. Hunched; hump-backed. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne. -- Gib"bous*ly, adv. -- Gib"bous*ness, n. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

gibbous adj 1: characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column [syn: crookback, crookbacked, humped, humpbacked, hunchbacked, gibbous, kyphotic] 2: (used of the moon) more than half full [syn: gibbous, gibbose]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

29 Moby Thesaurus words for "gibbous": arched, arciform, arclike, arcual, bandy, bowed, bowlike, bunchbacked, camelback, concave, convex, convexed, crookbacked, embowed, excurvate, excurvated, excurved, gibbose, humpbacked, humped, humpy, hunchbacked, hunched, hunchy, kyphotic, out-bowed, oxbow, rotund, vaulted