starry
AdjectiveUS[stah-ree]/ˈstɑˌri/2 syllables
Open English WordNet
Adjective (1)starrier, starriest
- abounding with or resembling stars“a starry night”“starry illumination”Opposite starlessSimilar sparkling, starlit, comet-like, starlike
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Star′ry (stär′ry̆), adjective
1. Abounding with stars; adorned with stars. “Above the starry sky.” Alexander Pope
2. Consisting of, or proceeding from, the stars; stellar; stellary; as, starry light; starry flame.
Do not Christians and Heathens, Jews and Gentiles, poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influence?— Sir Walter Scott
3. Shining like stars; sparkling; as, starry eyes.
4. Arranged in rays like those of a star; stellate.
Starry ray Zoology, a European skate (Raia radiata); — so called from the stellate bases of the dorsal spines.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54