starry
adjUK /ˈstɑː.ɹi/ · US /ˈstɑɹ.i/
Etymology From Middle English sterry, equivalent to star + -y.
1
Having stars visible.
- starry night
- Alyssa stared out of her window at the starry night sky.
2
Resembling or shaped like a star.
- I shrank from the starry waters as they rose to my lip, but a power stronger than my will compelled me to their taste.1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Enchantress, page 21:
- An old shrub long grown in gardens for its irregular yellow flowers of peculiar starry shape, coming from October to December.1904, Flora and Sylva, volume 2, page 90:
3
Full of stars or celebrities.
- Despite a starry cast, the film performed poorly at the box office.
- 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.2022 October 5, Michael Paulson, “Suzan-Lori Parks Is on Broadway, Off Broadway and Everywhere Else”, in The New York Times:
1 more example
- 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.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:
- Derived terms
- starrily, starriness, starry bob, starry campion, starry-eyed, starry eyes, starry flounder, starry ray, starry sturgeon, starry weever
- Coordinate terms
- stellar