MOSS-GROWN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does moss-grown mean? 

• MOSS-GROWN (adjective)
  The adjective MOSS-GROWN has 2 senses:

1. overgrown with moss

2. (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned

  Familiarity information: MOSS-GROWN used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOSS-GROWN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Overgrown with moss

Synonyms:

moss-grown; mossy

Similar:

covered (overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned

Synonyms:

fogyish; moss-grown; mossy; stick-in-the-mud; stodgy

Context example:

moss-grown ideas about family life

Similar:

unfashionable; unstylish (not in accord with or not following current fashion)

 Context examples 

The nearest of these was the hamlet of Tredannick Wollas, where the cottages of a couple of hundred inhabitants clustered round an ancient, moss-grown church.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)