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stary

/ˈstɛə.ɹi/US/ˈstɛɚ.i/

stary is the alternative spelling of starey.

Meaning of starey

Adjective

starey (comparative starier, superlative stariest)

  1. Characterized by staring.
    • […] skin white as buttermilk and maybe smelling a little like it, and big blue starey eyes, starey to some extent even when she was not distributed over a vaulting horse.2006, Robert Penn Warren, The Cave, page 17

Forms of stary

comparativestarier
superlativestariest

Origin of stary

From stare + -y.

Words that rhyme with stary

19 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about stary

What is stary the alternative spelling of?
Stary is the alternative spelling of starey.
How do you pronounce stary?
Stary is pronounced /ˈstɛə.ɹi/ (UK).

Words near stary in the dictionary

  1. starwise
  2. starword
  3. starwords
  4. starwort
  5. starworts
  6. stary
  7. Staryi Krym
  8. Staryi Saltiv
  9. Staryi Sambir
  10. Starzam
  11. Starzyk

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stary (page history and authors); starey (page history and authors). 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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