gibbous /ˈɡɪbəs/ adjective3 •Curved or bulged outward.In fact, what these gibbous human shapes specially represented was ready money—money insistently ready [...] — 1886 •Having more than half (but not the whole) of its disc illuminated.The moving moon, full, gibbous, or crescent-shaped, shone at last for the navigators of the eighteenth century like a luminous hand on the clock of heaven. — 1995 •Humpbacked.A pointed flinty rock, all bare and black, Grew gibbous from behind the mountain's back — 1697 formsmore gibbous · most gibbous