STARLIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does starlit mean? 

• STARLIT (adjective)
  The adjective STARLIT has 1 sense:

1. lighted only by stars

  Familiarity information: STARLIT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STARLIT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lighted only by stars

Context example:

the starlit darkness

Similar:

starry (abounding with or resembling stars)

 Context examples 

Up above me there was a circle of starlit sky, which showed me that I was lying at the bottom of a deep pit.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Based on a 2016 study using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, scientists speculated that lava would flow freely in lakes on the starlit side and become hardened on the face of perpetual darkness.

(Lava or Not, Exoplanet 55 Cancri e Likely to have Atmosphere, NASA)