stellar
Syllables: stel·lar/ˈstɛl.ə//ˈstɛl.əɹ/
stellar adjective: of, pertaining to, or characteristic of stars.
Adjective
stellar (comparative more stellar, superlative most stellar)
- Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of stars.
- Antonyms:
- nonstellar
- Heavenly.
- Exceptional, exceptionally good.
- The actress gave a stellar performance.
- Some years ago there were hundreds of musicians of ability, but of less stellar renown, who toured the country, giving performances at less than stellar fees.1931, Music and Dance, volume 21, Melbourne, Vic.: Australian Musical News Pub. Co., →OCLC, page 27, column 2
- Synonyms:
- wonderful, excellent, brilliant, exceptional, superb, outstanding
- Antonyms:
- mediocre, poor, underwhelming, average
stellar meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Bengali and Kannada
stellar in Hindi
- of, pertaining to, or characteristic of stars
- तारकीय tārkīya, तारक tārak
- exceptional; wonderful
- असाधारण asādhāraṇ
stellar in Marathi
- तारकीय
stellar in Bengali
- নাক্ষত্রিক
stellar in Kannada
- ಚುಕ್ಕೆಯ, ಅರಿಲಿನ
More languagesFewer languages
- stellar in Odia
- ଷ୍ଟେଲାର, ଷ୍ଟେଲାର୍
- stellar in Sanskrit
- तारकीय tārakīya, तारिकिणी tārikiṇī
- stellar in Arabic
- نَجْمِيّ najmiyy
Examples of stellar in a sentence
- Yet the economic seers are at it again, seemingly unabashed by their somewhat less than stellar performances in 1969.1970, Hardware Age, volume 205, New York, N.Y.: David Williams Co., →OCLC, page 8, column 1:
- You can still have a less than stellar score and obtain funding as long as you can convince a peer tha your project is worthy or your business model is strong.2012, Linda A. Jenkins, “What is Social Lending?”, in Creative Financing: How to Get a Small Business Loan without a Banker, Gold Alliance...
Synonyms of stellar
Antonyms
Forms of stellar
| comparative | more stellar |
|---|---|
| superlative | most stellar |
Origin of stellar
Borrowed from Latin stēllāris.
Words formed from stellar
- bistellar
- circumstellar
- epistellar
- interstellar
- interstellar comet
- interstellar medium
- interstellar planet
- interstellar space
- less than stellar
- panstellar
- prestellar
- protostellar
- quasar
- quasi-stellar
- quasistellar
- quasi-stellar object
- quasi-stellar radio-source
- quasi-stellar radiosource
- quasi-stellar radio source
- stellarator
- stellar black hole
- stellarcentric
- stellar day
- stellar disk
- stellar engine
- stellarite
- stellarity
- stellarly
- stellar mass black hole
- stellar month
- stellar nova
- stellar nursery
- stellar population
- stellar system
- Stellarton
- stellar wind
- substellar
- superstellar
- transstellar
- ultrastellar
Phrases with stellar
Words that rhyme with stellar
- teller
- cellar
- smeller
- speller
- impeller
- seller
- acerebellar
- anticerebellar
- cerebellar
- cerebrocerebellar
- corticocerebellar
- corticothalamocerebellar
31 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- cuneocerebellar
- dweller
- extracerebellar
- frontocerebellar
- hemicerebellar
- hypothalamocerebellar
- intracerebellar
- medicerebellar
- neocerebellar
- noncerebellar
- olivocerebellar
- olivopontocerebellar
- palaeocerebellar
- pancerebellar
- paracerebellar
- parietocerebellar
- pontocerebellar
- precerebellar
- rappeller
- repeller
- reticulocerebellar
- retrocerebellar
- skeller
- spinocerebellar
- steller
- supracerebellar
- tectocerebellar
- transcerebellar
- trigeminocerebellar
- vestibulocerebellar
- yeller
Questions about stellar
- What does stellar mean?
- Stellar means of, pertaining to, or characteristic of stars.
- What is stellar in Hindi?
- Stellar in Hindi is तारकीय (tārkīya), तारक (tārak), असाधारण (asādhāraṇ). See Stellar meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use stellar in a sentence?
- Yet the economic seers are at it again, seemingly unabashed by their somewhat less than stellar performances in 1969.
- What part of speech is stellar?
- Stellar is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce stellar?
- Stellar is pronounced /ˈstɛl.ə/ (UK).
Words near stellar in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: stellar (page history and authors); stellar (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); stellar (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); stellar (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); stellar (Odia, 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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