starry
adjective
- full of stars, lit up with stars
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈstɑː.ɹi/ / /ˈstɑɹ.i/
adj
Etymology: From Middle English sterry, equivalent to star + -y.
- Having stars visible.
“starry night”
“Alyssa stared out of her window at the starry night sky.”
- 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.”
“An old shrub long grown in gardens for its irregular yellow flowers of peculiar starry shape, coming from October to December.”
- 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.”
name
- A surname.