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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. abounding with or resembling stars;
- Example: "a starry night"
- Example: "starry illumination"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Starry \Star"ry\ (st[aum]r"r[y^]), a. 1. Abounding with stars; adorned with stars. "Above the starry sky." --Pope. [1913 Webster] 2. Consisting of, or proceeding from, the stars; stellar; stellary; as, starry light; starry flame. [1913 Webster] Do not Christians and Heathens, Jews and Gentiles, poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influence? --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] 3. Shining like stars; sparkling; as, starry eyes. [1913 Webster] 4. Arranged in rays like those of a star; stellate. [1913 Webster] Starry ray (Zool.), a European skate (Raia radiata); -- so called from the stellate bases of the dorsal spines. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

starry adj 1: abounding with or resembling stars; "a starry night"; "starry illumination" [ant: starless]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

86 Moby Thesaurus words for "starry": Cynthian, aglow, anagalactic, asteroidal, astral, astrologic, astrologistic, astrologous, astronomic, astrophysical, beaming, beamy, blushing, bright and sunny, burning, candescent, celestial, circumplanetary, cislunar, empyreal, empyrean, equinoctial, extragalactic, flushing, galactic, gleaming, gleamy, glinting, glowing, heavenly, heliacal, illuminant, incandescent, intercosmic, interplanetary, intersidereal, interstellar, irradiative, lamping, light as day, luciferous, lucific, luciform, luminant, luminative, luminiferous, luminificent, luminous, lunar, lunary, lunate, lunular, lunulate, lustrous, meteoric, meteoritic, nebular, nebulose, nebulous, orient, planetal, planetarian, planetary, planetesimal, radiant, rutilant, rutilous, semilunar, shining, shiny, sidereal, solar, sphery, star-spangled, star-studded, starbright, starlike, stellar, stellary, streaming, suffused, sunny, sunshiny, terrestrial, uranic, zodiacal