starry
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- adjective
- /ˈstɑːri/
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- The children gazed up in wonder at the starry heavens filled with constellations.
- starry sky
- starry-eyed
With each collapse, A starry seam appears across her spongy Gray skin.
- With each collapse, A starry seam appears across her spongy Gray skin.
- And the last one to open, they put it in a starry bag.
- It's it's like painting starry night.
Examples
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The night, clear and starry and hot, hovers over Kansas, the horizon still light.
Fiction book (1990) -
I think there is awe and majesty in a starry night as well.
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We look to the starry sky and love storms in our heart.
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The starry heavens above me
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Happy are those ages when the starry sky is the map of all possible paths.
Academic text (1998) -
Finally, I rolled onto my back and looked at the starry bowl of the sky.
Fiction book (1997) -
We went out into the starry dark afterwards and walked by the lake, holding hands.
Fiction book (1999) -
Meanwhile, the days of this February were white and magical; the nights were starry and crystalline.
Fiction book (1997) -
She'd been working on a crayon picture of Lake Union on a cold, starry winter's night.
Fiction book (1996) -
Under starry skies above
Synonyms
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Lit by the stars at night
Antonyms
Compounds
A small mountain plant with white star-shaped flowers that grows in low mats in European mountains
How Starry
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Starry comes from the simple word star plus the ending -y, which means 'full of' or 'having' and works like the -y in snowy or cloudy. So starry literally means 'full of stars', like a clear night sky covered with many bright points, and that image explains the word's meaning.