STARRY (starrier, starriest)

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Irregular inflected forms: starrier    , starriest   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does starry mean? 

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

1. abounding with or resembling stars

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• STARRY (adjective)

Comparative: starrier   
Superlative: starriest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Abounding with or resembling stars

Context example:

starry illumination

Similar:

comet-like (resembling a comet)

sparkling (shining with brilliant points of light like stars)

starlike (resembling a star)

starlit (lighted only by stars)

Antonym:

starless (not starry; having no stars or starlike objects)

Derivation:

star ((astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior)

star (any celestial body visible (as a point of light) from the Earth at night)

 Context examples 

Mature B cell, lymphoblastic, starry sky effect

(Classic Burkitt Lymphoma of the Mouse Hematologic System, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

My dear Copperfield, she is the only starry spot in a miserable existence.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The starry sky, the sea, and every sight afforded by these wonderful regions seem still to have the power of elevating his soul from earth.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The moon had not yet risen, and Ruth, gazing into the starry vault of the sky and exchanging no speech with Martin, experienced a sudden feeling of loneliness.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

When the king got to the bottom, he ordered Cat-skin to be called once more, and soon saw the white finger, and the ring that he had put on it whilst they were dancing: so he seized her hand, and kept fast hold of it, and when she wanted to loose herself and spring away, the fur cloak fell off a little on one side, and the starry dress sparkled underneath it.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

No sooner had twilight, that hour of romance, began to lower her blue and starry banner over the lattice, than I rose, opened the piano, and entreated him, for the love of heaven, to give me a song.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The trees grew so thickly and their foliage spread so widely that I could see nothing of the moon-light save that here and there the high branches made a tangled filigree against the starry sky.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Frequent in some GEM and mice infected with acutely transforming MuLV; Necropsy findings: Splenomegaly, generalized lymphadenopathy, usually with extensive spread to liver, kidney, and lungs, sometimes to meninges with skull exostoses and hind limb paralysis; leukemic form in about one third of cases; Cell size: Medium, uniform; Cytoplasm: Scant; Nuclei: Round or ovoid; chromatin fine; Nucleoli: Variable, often single, central and prominent but sometimes small and multiple; Mitoses: Numerous; Pattern: Diffuse, sometimes starry sky because of apoptosis.

(Mouse Precursor B Cell Lymphoblastic Lymphoma and Leukemia, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

He was stirred profoundly by the passing glimpse at the secret, and he was again caught up in the vision of sunlit spaces and starry voids—until it came to him that it was very quiet, and he saw Ruth regarding him with an amused expression and a smile in her eyes.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But I'd travel faster with you just the same, was what he wanted to blurt out, as he caught a vision of a world without end of sunlit spaces and starry voids through which he drifted with her, his arm around her, her pale gold hair blowing about his face.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)