What does starry mean?
Starry means Having stars visible..
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/ˈstɑː.ɹi/ · adjective
Having stars visible..
starry night
Alyssa stared out of her window at the starry night sky.
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.
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.
After a bit of digging, we discovered she follows a stringent workout and nutrition regime, masterminded by Patrick Murphy — a celeb PT with a super-starry roster, including Zac Efron, Keanu Reeves and Ruby Rose — with a focus on overall health rather than aesthetics.
Use starry when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Starry means Having stars visible..
Common synonyms include stelliferous, star-studded, sparkling, starlit.
Possible antonyms include starless, unstarry.
starry night
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