stellar

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: stel=lar

CIDE DICTIONARY

stellar, a. [L. stellaris, fr. stella a star. See Star.].

•  Of or pertaining to stars; astral; as, a stellar figure; stellary orbs.  [1913 Webster]

  "[These soft fires] in part shed down
  Their stellar virtue."  [1913 Webster]
•  Full of stars; starry; as, stellar regions.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

stellar, adj. of or relating to a star or stars.

Derivative

stelliform adj.

Etymology

LL stellaris f. L stella star

THESAURUS

stellar

Cynthian, actor-proof, all-star, anagalactic, arch, asteroidal, astral, astrologic, astrologistic, astrologous, astronomic, astrophysical, ballet, balletic, banner, capital, cardinal, celestial, central, champion, chief, cinematic, cinematographic, circumplanetary, cislunar, cock, crowning, dominant, dramatic, dramatical, dramaturgic, empyreal, empyrean, equinoctial, extragalactic, film, filmic, first, focal, foremost, galactic, gleaming, great, ham, hammy, headmost, heavenly, hegemonic, heliacal, histrionic, intercosmic, interplanetary, intersidereal, interstellar, leading, legitimate, luminous, lunar, lunary, lunate, lunular, lunulate, lustrous, magisterial, main, major, master, melodramatic, meteoric, meteoritic, milked, monodramatic, movie, nebular, nebulose, nebulous, operatic, outstanding, overacted, overplayed, overruling, paramount, planetal, planetarian, planetary, planetesimal, predominant, preeminent, preponderant, prevailing, primal, primary, prime, principal, ranking, ruling, scenic, semilunar, shining, sidereal, solar, sovereign, spectacular, sphery, stagelike, stageworthy, stagy, star, star-spangled, star-studded, starlike, starring, starry, starstruck, stellary, supereminent, terrestrial, theaterlike, theatrical, thespian, thrown away, topflight, twinkling, underacted, underplayed, uranic, vaudevillian, zodiacal

ROGET THESAURUS

stellar

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.