starry
See also: Starry
English
Etymology
From Middle English sterry, equivalent to star + -y.
Adjective
starry (comparative starrier, superlative starriest)
- Having stars visible.
- Synonym: stelliferous
- Antonyms: starless, unstarry
- starry night
- Alyssa stared out of her window at the starry night sky.
- Resembling or shaped like a star.
- 1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Enchantress, page 21:
- I shrank from the starry waters as they rose to my lip, but a power stronger than my will compelled me to their taste.
- 1904, Flora and Sylva, volume 2, page 90:
- An old shrub long grown in gardens for its irregular yellow flowers of peculiar starry shape, coming from October to December.
- Full of stars or celebrities.
- Synonym: star-studded
- Despite a starry cast, the film performed poorly at the box office.
- 2022 October 5, Michael Paulson, “Suzan-Lori Parks Is on Broadway, Off Broadway and Everywhere Else”, in The New York Times:
- A starry 20th-anniversary revival of “Topdog/Underdog,” her Pulitzer Prize-winning fable about two brothers, three-card monte and one troubling inheritance, is in previews on Broadway.
- 2023 March 20, Rebecca Gillam, Bridie Wilkins, “Alexandra Daddario and her PT on how she built her Baywatch bod + her 10 regular workout rules”, in Women's Health:
- After a bit of digging, we discovered she follows a stringent workout and nutrition regime, masterminded by Patrick Murphy — a celeb PT with a super-starry roster, including Zac Efron, Keanu Reeves and Ruby Rose — with a focus on overall health rather than aesthetics.
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having stars visible
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shaped like a star
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