Synonyms for starry

Grammar : Adj

Spell : stahr-ee

Phonetic Transcription : ˈstɑr i

Top 10 synonyms for starry

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Définition of starry

Origin : late 14c., from star + -y (2). Starry-eyed "unrealistically optimistic" is attested from 1884; earlier descriptive of bright eyes. Related: Starrily; starriness.

adj pertaining to stars

Example sentences :

Overhead is the starry sky, bathed in the pale radiance of the moon.
Extract from : « The Story of the Malakand Field Force » by Sir Winston S. Churchill

He smiled at her; and for a moment he mused again over that starry light in her eyes.
Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown

When I reached the manse, it stood alone in the starry blue night.
Extract from : « Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood » by George MacDonald

It was pleasant there; the air came fresh from the starry sky.
Extract from : « Nana, The Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille » by Emile Zola

And he was very great and she was very fair, and there radiated from both a starry radiance.
Extract from : « Doctor Pascal » by Emile Zola

Or rather, perhaps, 'the starry heaven above and mind prior to the world.'
Extract from : « Laws » by Plato

Often on starry nights he would be a watcher of the heavens.
Extract from : « War Letters of a Public-School Boy » by Paul Jones.

But something else comes creeping in,As softly, from the starry night— The Elf!
Extract from : « Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) » by Various

Only her eyes were visible—sombre and gleaming like a starry night.
Extract from : « An Outcast of the Islands » by Joseph Conrad

I shall never forget the last night, dark, windy, and starry.
Extract from : « The Shadow-Line » by Joseph Conrad

Antonyms for starry

dull

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