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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. indicating the most important performer or role;
- Example: "the leading man"
- Example: "prima ballerina"
- Example: "prima donna"
- Example: "a star figure skater"
- Example: "the starring role"
- Example: "a stellar role"
- Example: "a stellar performance"
[syn: leading(p), prima(p), star(p), starring(p), stellar(a)]

2. being or relating to or resembling or emanating from stars;
- Example: "an astral body"
- Example: "stellar light"
[syn: stellar, astral]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Stellar \Stel"lar\, Stellary \Stel"la*ry\, a. [L. stellaris, fr.
   stella a star. See Star.]
   1. Of or pertaining to stars; astral; as, a stellar figure;
      stellary orbs.
      [1913 Webster]

            [These soft fires] in part shed down
            Their stellar virtue.                 --Milton.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Full of stars; starry; as, stellar regions.
      [1913 Webster] Stellate


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

128 Moby Thesaurus words for "stellar":
   Cynthian, actor-proof, all-star, anagalactic, arch, asteroidal,
   astral, astrologic, astrologistic, astrologous, astronomic,
   astrophysical, ballet, balletic, banner, capital, cardinal,
   celestial, central, champion, chief, cinematic, cinematographic,
   circumplanetary, cislunar, cock, crowning, dominant, dramatic,
   dramatical, dramaturgic, empyreal, empyrean, equinoctial,
   extragalactic, film, filmic, first, focal, foremost, galactic,
   gleaming, great, ham, hammy, headmost, heavenly, hegemonic,
   heliacal, histrionic, intercosmic, interplanetary, intersidereal,
   interstellar, leading, legitimate, luminous, lunar, lunary, lunate,
   lunular, lunulate, lustrous, magisterial, main, major, master,
   melodramatic, meteoric, meteoritic, milked, monodramatic, movie,
   nebular, nebulose, nebulous, operatic, outstanding, overacted,
   overplayed, overruling, paramount, planetal, planetarian,
   planetary, planetesimal, predominant, preeminent, preponderant,
   prevailing, primal, primary, prime, principal, ranking, ruling,
   scenic, semilunar, shining, sidereal, solar, sovereign,
   spectacular, sphery, stagelike, stageworthy, stagy, star,
   star-spangled, star-studded, starlike, starring, starry,
   starstruck, stellary, supereminent, terrestrial, theaterlike,
   theatrical, thespian, thrown away, topflight, twinkling,
   underacted, underplayed, uranic, vaudevillian, zodiacal