starry

From Middle English sterry, equivalent to star +‎ -y.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈstɑː.ɹi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈstɑɹ.i/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːɹi

starry (comparative starrier, superlative starriest)

1. Having stars visible.

   Synonym: stelliferous

   Alyssa stared out of her window at the starry night sky.

2. Resembling or shaped like a star.
   • 1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Enchantress, page 21:

     I shrank from the starry waters as they rose to my lip, but a power stronger than my will compelled me to their taste.

   • 1904, Flora and Sylva (volume 2, page 90)

     An old shrub long grown in gardens for its irregular yellow flowers of peculiar starry shape, coming from October to December.

3. Full of stars or celebrities.

   Synonym: star-studded

   Despite a starry cast, the film performed poorly at the box office.

   • 2022 October 5, Michael Paulson, “Suzan-Lori Parks Is on Broadway, Off Broadway and Everywhere Else”, in The New York Times‎:

     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.

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