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 (mô′sē, mŏs′ē)
adj. moss·i·er, moss·i·est
1. Covered with moss or something like moss: mossy banks.
2. Resembling moss.
3. Old-fashioned; antiquated.

moss′i·ness n.


(ˈmɔ si, ˈmɒs i)

adj. moss•i•er, moss•i•est.
1. overgrown with or abounding in moss.
2. appearing as if covered with moss.
3. resembling moss.
moss′i•ness, n.
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.mossy - overgrown with moss
2.mossy - (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned; "moss-grown ideas about family life"
unfashionable, unstylish - not in accord with or not following current fashion; "unfashionable clothes"; "melodrama of a now unfashionable kind"


[ˈmɒsɪ] ADJmusgoso, cubierto de musgo


[ˈmɒsi] adjmoussu(e)


adj (+er) (= moss-covered)moosbedeckt, bemoost; lawnvermoost; (= mosslike)moosig, moosartig


[ˈmɒsɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) → muscoso/a


(mos) noun
(any variety of) a type of small flowerless plant, found in damp places, forming a soft green covering on tree trunks etc. The bank of the river was covered in moss.
ˈmossy adjective
References in classic literature ?
"There be three Badgers on a mossy stone, Beside a dark and covered way: Each dreams himself a monarch on his throne, And so they stay and stay Though their old Father languishes alone, They stay, and stay, and stay.
The pearly lustre of the moon went out: The mossy banks and the meandering paths, The happy flowers and the repining trees, Were seen no more: the very roses' odors Died in the arms of the adoring airs.
I thought my quest had brought me into a strange old haunted forest, and that I had thrown myself down to rest at the gnarled mossy root of a great oak-tree, while all about me was nought but fantastic shapes and capricious groups of gold-green bole and bough, wondrous alleys ending in mysterious coverts, and green lanes of exquisite turf that seemed to have been laid down in expectation of some milk-white queen or goddess passing that way.
The mineral waters of Arva Wai* ooze forth from the crevices of a rock, and gliding down its mossy side, fall at last, in many clustering drops, into a natural basin of stone fringed round with grass and dewy-looking little violet-coloured flowers, as fresh and beautiful as the perpetual moisture they enjoy can make them.
This was a fountain, set round with a rim of old mossy stones, and paved, in its bed, with what appeared to be a sort of mosaic-work of variously colored pebbles.