starry

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: star=ry

CIDE DICTIONARY

starry, a. 

•  Abounding with stars; adorned with stars.  Pope.  [1913 Webster]
•  Consisting of, or proceeding from, the stars; stellar; stellary; as, starry light; starry flame.  [1913 Webster]

  "Do not Christians and Heathens, Jews and Gentiles, poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influence?"  [1913 Webster]
•  Shining like stars; sparkling; as, starry eyes.  [1913 Webster]
•  Arranged in rays like those of a star; stellate.  [1913 Webster]

Starry ray (Zoöl.), a European skate (Raia radiata); -- so called from the stellate bases of the dorsal spines.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

starry, adj. (starrier, starriest)
1 covered with stars.
2 resembling a star.

Idiom

starry-eyed colloq.
1 visionary; enthusiastic but impractical.
2 euphoric.

Derivative

starrily adv. starriness n.

THESAURUS

starry

Cynthian, aglow, anagalactic, asteroidal, astral, astrologic, astrologistic, astrologous, astronomic, astrophysical, beaming, beamy, blushing, bright and sunny, burning, candescent, celestial, circumplanetary, cislunar, empyreal, empyrean, equinoctial, extragalactic, flushing, galactic, gleaming, gleamy, glinting, glowing, heavenly, heliacal, illuminant, incandescent, intercosmic, interplanetary, intersidereal, interstellar, irradiative, lamping, light as day, luciferous, lucific, luciform, luminant, luminative, luminiferous, luminificent, luminous, lunar, lunary, lunate, lunular, lunulate, lustrous, meteoric, meteoritic, nebular, nebulose, nebulous, orient, planetal, planetarian, planetary, planetesimal, radiant, rutilant, rutilous, semilunar, shining, shiny, sidereal, solar, sphery, star-spangled, star-studded, starbright, starlike, stellar, stellary, streaming, suffused, sunny, sunshiny, terrestrial, uranic, zodiacal

ROGET THESAURUS

starry

World

N world, creation, nature, universe, earth, globe, wide world, cosmos, kosmos, terraqueous globe, sphere, macrocosm, megacosm, music of the spheres, heavens, sky, welkin, empyrean, starry cope, starry heaven, starry host, firmament, Midgard, supersensible regions, varuna, vault of heaven, canopy of heaven, celestial spaces, heavenly bodies, stars, asteroids, nebulae, galaxy, milky way, galactic circle, via lactea, ame no kawa, sun, orb of day, Apollo, Phoebus, photosphere, chromosphere, solar system, planet, planetoid, comet, satellite, moon, orb of night, Diana, silver-footed queen, aerolite, meteor, planetary ring, falling star, shooting star, meteorite, uranolite, constellation, zodiac, signs of the zodiac, Charles's wain, Big Dipper, Little Dipper, Great Bear, Southern Cross, Orion's belt, Cassiopea's chair, Pleiades, colures, equator, ecliptic, orbit, astronomy, uranography, uranology, cosmology, cosmography, cosmogony, eidouranion, orrery, geodesy, star gazing, star gazer, astronomer, observatory, planetarium, cosmic, cosmical, mundane, terrestrial, terrestrious, terraqueous, terrene, terreous, telluric, earthly, geotic, under the sun, sublunary, subastral, solar, heliacal, lunar, celestial, heavenly, sphery, starry, stellar, sidereal, sideral, astral, nebular, uranic, in all creation, on the face of the globe, here below, under the sun, die Weltgeschichte ist das Weltergesicht, earth is but the frozen echo of the silent voice o, green calm below, blue quietness above, hanging in a golden chain this pendant World, nothing in nature is unbeautiful, silently as a dream the fabric rose, some touch of nature's genial glow, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, through knowledge we behold the World's creation.