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STARRY
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Irregular inflected forms: starrier , starriest
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Abounding with or resembling stars
Example:
starry illumination
Classified under:
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:
The poem swung in majestic rhythm to the cool tumult of interstellar conflict, to the onset of starry hosts, to the impact of cold suns and the flaming up of nebulae in the darkened void; and through it all, unceasing and faint, like a silver shuttle, ran the frail, piping voice of man, a querulous chirp amid the screaming of planets and the crash of systems.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Baldly as he had stated it, in his eyes was a rich vision of that hot, starry night at Salina Cruz, the white strip of beach, the lights of the sugar steamers in the harbor, the voices of the drunken sailors in the distance, the jostling stevedores, the flaming passion in the Mexican's face, the glint of the beast-eyes in the starlight, the sting of the steel in his neck, and the rush of blood, the crowd and the cries, the two bodies, his and the Mexican's, locked together, rolling over and over and tearing up the sand, and from away off somewhere the mellow tinkling of a guitar.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
His thin lips, like the dies of a machine, stamped out phrases that cut and stung; or again, pursing caressingly about the inchoate sound they articulated, the thin lips shaped soft and velvety things, mellow phrases of glow and glory, of haunting beauty, reverberant of the mystery and inscrutableness of life; and yet again the thin lips were like a bugle, from which rang the crash and tumult of cosmic strife, phrases that sounded clear as silver, that were luminous as starry spaces, that epitomized the final word of science and yet said something more—the poet's word, the transcendental truth, elusive and without words which could express, and which none the less found expression in the subtle and all but ungraspable connotations of common words.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
