moonstruck
adjective
moon·struck
ˈmün-ˌstrək 
: affected by or as if by the moon: such as
a
: romantically sentimental
… who can forget the '50s moonstruck lyrics of Elvis … or the Everly Brothers …—
Eileen Wood
Eileen WoodMoonstruck partners pledging eternal love may be the current definition of marriage, but this starry-eyed picture has relatively modern origins.—Tia Ghose
Tia Ghose
b
: lost in fantasy or reverie
… a sun-kissed, moonstruck world, where life looks great—because it is always in soft focus.—Scot Haller
Scot Haller
c
: not mentally sound
Examples of moonstruck in a Sentence
a celebrity mobbed by moonstruck teenage girls
police asked psychiatrists to put together a portrait of the moonstruck marksman who was responsible for the shootings
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Musk was certainly behaving like a moonstruck cultist.
—Susan B. Glasser, New Yorker, 5 June 2025
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Susan B. Glasser, New Yorker, 5 June 2025
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“Moonstruck.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/moonstruck. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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moonstruck
adjective
moon·struck
-ˌstrək
1
: mentally unbalanced
2
: romantically sentimental
3
: lost in daydreams or fantasy
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