starry
UK/ˈstɑː.ɹi//ˈstɑɹ.i/
starry adjective: having stars visible.
Adjective
starry (comparative starrier, superlative starriest)
- Having stars visible.
- starry night
- Alyssa stared out of her window at the starry night sky.
- Synonyms:
- stelliferous
- 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
- 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
- Synonyms:
- star-studded
Proper noun capitalized: Starry
Starry (plural Starrys)
- A surname.
starry meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
starry in Hindi
- स्टाररी, तारों वाली
starry in Marathi
- स्टाररी
starry in Urdu
- ستارے دار
starry in Bengali
- তারকাময়, নক্ষত্রখচিত
More languagesFewer languages
- starry in Malayalam
- നക്ഷത്രങ്ങൾ നിറഞ്ഞ, താരോപമമായ, പ്രകാശിക്കുന്ന
- starry in Kannada
- ಸ್ಟಾರಿ
- starry in Punjabi
- ਸਟਾਰਰੀ
- starry in Gujarati
- સ્ટારરી, સ્ટેરી
- starry in Odia
- ଷ୍ଟାରି, ଷ୍ଟାର୍ରି, ଷ୍ଟାରୀ
- starry in Nepali
- स्टाररी, स्टार्री, स्टारी
Examples of starry in a sentence
- Give me your starry rock, your aniseed spogs, your pink sugar mice.
- The Queen of the Night is backlighted by a skyful of starry dots.
- The garden was afoam with starry white cosmos backed by the stately phalanx of the Prince’s Feather.
Synonyms of starry
Antonyms
Forms of starry
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | starrier |
| superlative | starriest |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Starrys |
Origin of starry
From Middle English sterry, equivalent to star + -y.
Words formed from starry
Phrases with starry
Words that rhyme with starry
Questions about starry
- What does starry mean?
- Starry means having stars visible.
- What is starry in Hindi?
- Starry in Hindi is स्टाररी, तारों वाली. See Starry meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is starry?
- Starry can be an adjective or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce starry?
- Starry is pronounced /ˈstɑː.ɹi/ (UK).
Words near starry in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: starry (page history and authors); Starry (page history and authors); starry (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); starry (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); starry (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); starry (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); starry (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); starry (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); starry (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); starry (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); starry (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); starry (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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