Definition of starry in English:

starry

adjectivestarrier, starriest ˈstɑːriˈstɑri

1Full of or lit by stars.
a starry sky
Example sentencesExamples
- The nights come with late night discussions under the starry sky cooled by strong, cool, humid gusts of wind.
- Week after week there were clear skies by day and starry skies at night.
- Countryside campaigners have launched a campaign to save North and East Yorkshire's starry night sky.
- Then you wait for a few moments, silently marvelling at the beautiful starry night and the almost magical stillness.
- The Christmas tree is decorated with coloured lights because they remind us of the stars flickering through the branches on a cold starry winter night.
- Hung on the wall in a grid, the paintings resemble a starry night sky - the gorgeous and serendipitous result of a very mechanical process.
- When they helicopter began to descend to the earth, the clouds from the sky had somewhat blown away, to give way to a clear starry night sky.
- In this poem, Longley acknowledges that in spite of his long experience as a professional poet, he finds it difficult to describe, to put into words, the starry night sky that he observes.
- I go outside in the cold to get to the breaker box and find I'm standing in the alley beneath a perfectly clear and starry sky.
- This time, instead of a colorful sunset, it's a starry night sky.
- I sealed the letter and stared out the window at the starry night sky, imagining that Alex was staring at the same sky in Krakow.
- It reminded me visually and spatially of how it feels to be very little and gaze up at the sky on a clear and starry night.
- Maybe because (for some reason I'm not sure of) it reminds me of being outside on a cool October night, under a starry sky.
- The North-east monsoon showers have heralded the coming of the season of chilly nights, starry skies and misty mornings in the city.
- We passed through channels edged by emerald mountains and snowcapped volcanoes; the starry night skies were unsurpassable.
- He glanced up at the full moon hanging in the clear, starry sky.
- Alex gazed out the window into the starry night sky.
- I see myself now under a big wide starry sky - the same stars I used to gaze at as a child by dad's side.
- Sarah stared out the window watching the sky fade from a multitude of color to a black starry night.
- She gazed up at the starry night sky and thought about her future.
1. 1.1 Resembling a star in brightness or shape.
  tiny white starry flowers
  Example sentencesExamples
  Indeed, aster, the Latin word for star, aptly describes the starry flower heads.
  The starry pink and white flowers of Daphne x burkwoodii in spring are so small it's hard to believe they can release such a huge scent.
  Its leaves are a deep glossy-green and it bears fragrant, starry, white flowers that are frequented by butterflies.
  This heavy bloomer gets its name from the way each flower bud swells before its starry petals unfold.
  He was running across a field that bore only the most luminous, starry flowers in existence.
  After an initial flash of light, of a painful but very starry brightness everywhere, the world went suddenly dark, and life seemed to be draining from my limbs, along with my consciousness.
  Their flower clusters differ from lacecaps in that some varieties produce sterile flowers with petallike sepals, while others bear smaller fertile flowers with starry petals.
  Allium aflatunense (native to Iran) has dense spherical umbels of starry lilac-purple flowers (the puffball effect) on stems two to three feet tall.
  He looked to Juan, eyes bright and starry.
  A starry cascade of bright lights flew out, accompanied by a score of rockets.
  Bluebeard comes on strong in spring with silvery, almost-white toothed foliage, followed by the clearest blue, starry flowers in late summer.
  This will brighten you up and let your starry eyes shine!
  Guttering sweet oil lamps hooded with brass-stamped patterns make glowing starry shapes on the walls and ceiling.
2informal Relating to stars in the world of entertainment.
the series had the benefit of a starry cast
Example sentencesExamples
- It's based in the opulent Glasgow hotel, One Devonshire Gardens, thus guaranteeing a steady stream of starry names among the diners.
- Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier, Clive Dunn and Ian Lavender are among the more starry names associated with the television series.
- Dangerous Liaisons, a corset drama with steady rather than starry names, became an unexpectedly big hit.
- With a much bigger budget at his disposal, Rodriguez employs a starry cast and racks up the gun play with a series of action set pieces.
- Having said that, I'd much rather see the project turned into a TV mini-series with a less starry cast so as to give the story a bit of room to breathe.
- From its sea monsters to its starry cast, this is a dazzling Idomeneo, says Andrew Clements
- Zac Posen went onto co-host the night's most starry after party in Marquee with him.
- He is part of the starry ensemble in Stephen Fry's Evelyn Waugh adaptation Bright Young Things.
- Despite a starry cast - Joaquin Phoenix, Adrien Brody, William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver - the film's try at myth-making makes it ponderous.
- And director Gore Verbinski, whose last outing as helmer was the spooky thriller The Ring, handles the action with aplomb while still bringing the best out of his starry cast.
- The action is set against an original score by composer Deirdre Gribbin, Stein's wife, while the starry cast also includes Susannah York and Anne Marie Duff.
- Mark Elder conducts a starry cast, led by Simon Keenlyside and Vesselina Kasarova, with a rare cameo appearance (in London) by the veteran Renato Bruson.
- The cast is appreciably less starry than the 1969 production, though this has the effect of focusing attention more on the text than the performance.
- The starry cast is led by Ralph Fiennes as Mark Antony, Simon Russell Beale as Cassius, Paul Rhys as Brutus, Fiona Shaw as Portia and John Shrapnel as Caesar.
- A starry cast - including Susan Sarandon, Jeff Goldblum and Claire Danes - is assembled on the Long Island set of Igby Goes Down.
- The government in particular will be hoping that the public tires of the Hutton inquiry as is stretches into its second and third weeks and beyond, but the starry cast list makes this unlikely.
- Renee Robinson and Jeffrey Gerodias led the company, the brightest stars in a starry firmament: fluid Ellington, often classical ballet, always Ailey.
- He heads a starry cast that includes Robbie Coltrane, John Cleese and Dame Maggie Smith.
- Any reasonably sensible person who had seen the movie would know that a stage adaptation couldn't possibly work, but that, apparently, didn't prevent a number of starry names from signing up to the project.
- This 1953 recording was the first on LP, as opposed to 78s, and its starry cast attracted a wide audience.

Derivatives

starrily

adverb

It blooms about March 20th here, slight and silver-gray in the bud, but opening out starrily in warm sunshine to reveal the warmer colour of the inner sepals and the hot orange stigmata.
Example sentencesExamples
- The stone is in the centre of this section of the exhibition and, appropriately, the broken edges of the black stela glitter starrily.
- A starrily cast opera-in-concert has traditionally been the highlight and hottest ticket of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra season.
- Though not as starrily cast, and by no means perfect, this Barber is packed with razor sharp humour, and the musical standards are very high.
- It is witty, surface-clever, starrily cast, and wholly British.

starriness

noun

His starriness and vanity, while less on display than usual this time - even his hair has been looking pretty normal - are easily lampooned.
Example sentencesExamples
- Her starriness has a challenging, irritating twinkle peculiar to her.
- It's that irrepressible mix of ordinariness and starriness.
- Perhaps it's also that she's not yet used to the starriness of it all.
- George Clooney, along with his well-groomed gang of merry thieves, are all too happy to coast on their combined starriness and lounge like catalogue models in exotic European locations.

Rhymes

askari, Bari, Cagliari, calamari, Campari, charivari, curare, Ferrari, Harare, Kalahari, Mari, Mata Hari, Qatari, Rastafari, safari, sari, Scutari, shikari, sparry, Stradivari, tamari, terramare, Vasari, Zanzibari

Definition of starry in US English:

starry

adjectiveˈstɑriˈstärē

1Full of or lit by stars.
a starry sky
Example sentencesExamples
- The nights come with late night discussions under the starry sky cooled by strong, cool, humid gusts of wind.
- He glanced up at the full moon hanging in the clear, starry sky.
- This time, instead of a colorful sunset, it's a starry night sky.
- Then you wait for a few moments, silently marvelling at the beautiful starry night and the almost magical stillness.
- I see myself now under a big wide starry sky - the same stars I used to gaze at as a child by dad's side.
- Countryside campaigners have launched a campaign to save North and East Yorkshire's starry night sky.
- When they helicopter began to descend to the earth, the clouds from the sky had somewhat blown away, to give way to a clear starry night sky.
- It reminded me visually and spatially of how it feels to be very little and gaze up at the sky on a clear and starry night.
- I go outside in the cold to get to the breaker box and find I'm standing in the alley beneath a perfectly clear and starry sky.
- We passed through channels edged by emerald mountains and snowcapped volcanoes; the starry night skies were unsurpassable.
- She gazed up at the starry night sky and thought about her future.
- The North-east monsoon showers have heralded the coming of the season of chilly nights, starry skies and misty mornings in the city.
- Maybe because (for some reason I'm not sure of) it reminds me of being outside on a cool October night, under a starry sky.
- Hung on the wall in a grid, the paintings resemble a starry night sky - the gorgeous and serendipitous result of a very mechanical process.
- Week after week there were clear skies by day and starry skies at night.
- Alex gazed out the window into the starry night sky.
- Sarah stared out the window watching the sky fade from a multitude of color to a black starry night.
- The Christmas tree is decorated with coloured lights because they remind us of the stars flickering through the branches on a cold starry winter night.
- I sealed the letter and stared out the window at the starry night sky, imagining that Alex was staring at the same sky in Krakow.
- In this poem, Longley acknowledges that in spite of his long experience as a professional poet, he finds it difficult to describe, to put into words, the starry night sky that he observes.
1. 1.1 Resembling a star in brightness or shape.
  tiny white starry flowers
  Example sentencesExamples
  Its leaves are a deep glossy-green and it bears fragrant, starry, white flowers that are frequented by butterflies.
  He looked to Juan, eyes bright and starry.
  Allium aflatunense (native to Iran) has dense spherical umbels of starry lilac-purple flowers (the puffball effect) on stems two to three feet tall.
  He was running across a field that bore only the most luminous, starry flowers in existence.
  Bluebeard comes on strong in spring with silvery, almost-white toothed foliage, followed by the clearest blue, starry flowers in late summer.
  After an initial flash of light, of a painful but very starry brightness everywhere, the world went suddenly dark, and life seemed to be draining from my limbs, along with my consciousness.
  The starry pink and white flowers of Daphne x burkwoodii in spring are so small it's hard to believe they can release such a huge scent.
  Guttering sweet oil lamps hooded with brass-stamped patterns make glowing starry shapes on the walls and ceiling.
  This will brighten you up and let your starry eyes shine!
  Indeed, aster, the Latin word for star, aptly describes the starry flower heads.
  A starry cascade of bright lights flew out, accompanied by a score of rockets.
  This heavy bloomer gets its name from the way each flower bud swells before its starry petals unfold.
  Their flower clusters differ from lacecaps in that some varieties produce sterile flowers with petallike sepals, while others bear smaller fertile flowers with starry petals.

单词	starry
释义	Definition of starry in English: starry adjectivestarrier, starriest ˈstɑːriˈstɑri 1Full of or lit by stars. a starry sky Example sentencesExamples The nights come with late night discussions under the starry sky cooled by strong, cool, humid gusts of wind. Week after week there were clear skies by day and starry skies at night. Countryside campaigners have launched a campaign to save North and East Yorkshire's starry night sky. Then you wait for a few moments, silently marvelling at the beautiful starry night and the almost magical stillness. The Christmas tree is decorated with coloured lights because they remind us of the stars flickering through the branches on a cold starry winter night. Hung on the wall in a grid, the paintings resemble a starry night sky - the gorgeous and serendipitous result of a very mechanical process. When they helicopter began to descend to the earth, the clouds from the sky had somewhat blown away, to give way to a clear starry night sky. In this poem, Longley acknowledges that in spite of his long experience as a professional poet, he finds it difficult to describe, to put into words, the starry night sky that he observes. I go outside in the cold to get to the breaker box and find I'm standing in the alley beneath a perfectly clear and starry sky. This time, instead of a colorful sunset, it's a starry night sky. I sealed the letter and stared out the window at the starry night sky, imagining that Alex was staring at the same sky in Krakow. It reminded me visually and spatially of how it feels to be very little and gaze up at the sky on a clear and starry night. Maybe because (for some reason I'm not sure of) it reminds me of being outside on a cool October night, under a starry sky. The North-east monsoon showers have heralded the coming of the season of chilly nights, starry skies and misty mornings in the city. We passed through channels edged by emerald mountains and snowcapped volcanoes; the starry night skies were unsurpassable. He glanced up at the full moon hanging in the clear, starry sky. Alex gazed out the window into the starry night sky. I see myself now under a big wide starry sky - the same stars I used to gaze at as a child by dad's side. Sarah stared out the window watching the sky fade from a multitude of color to a black starry night. She gazed up at the starry night sky and thought about her future. 1.1 Resembling a star in brightness or shape. tiny white starry flowers Example sentencesExamples Indeed, aster, the Latin word for star, aptly describes the starry flower heads. The starry pink and white flowers of Daphne x burkwoodii in spring are so small it's hard to believe they can release such a huge scent. Its leaves are a deep glossy-green and it bears fragrant, starry, white flowers that are frequented by butterflies. This heavy bloomer gets its name from the way each flower bud swells before its starry petals unfold. He was running across a field that bore only the most luminous, starry flowers in existence. After an initial flash of light, of a painful but very starry brightness everywhere, the world went suddenly dark, and life seemed to be draining from my limbs, along with my consciousness. Their flower clusters differ from lacecaps in that some varieties produce sterile flowers with petallike sepals, while others bear smaller fertile flowers with starry petals. Allium aflatunense (native to Iran) has dense spherical umbels of starry lilac-purple flowers (the puffball effect) on stems two to three feet tall. He looked to Juan, eyes bright and starry. A starry cascade of bright lights flew out, accompanied by a score of rockets. Bluebeard comes on strong in spring with silvery, almost-white toothed foliage, followed by the clearest blue, starry flowers in late summer. This will brighten you up and let your starry eyes shine! Guttering sweet oil lamps hooded with brass-stamped patterns make glowing starry shapes on the walls and ceiling. 2informal Relating to stars in the world of entertainment. the series had the benefit of a starry cast Example sentencesExamples It's based in the opulent Glasgow hotel, One Devonshire Gardens, thus guaranteeing a steady stream of starry names among the diners. Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier, Clive Dunn and Ian Lavender are among the more starry names associated with the television series. Dangerous Liaisons, a corset drama with steady rather than starry names, became an unexpectedly big hit. With a much bigger budget at his disposal, Rodriguez employs a starry cast and racks up the gun play with a series of action set pieces. Having said that, I'd much rather see the project turned into a TV mini-series with a less starry cast so as to give the story a bit of room to breathe. From its sea monsters to its starry cast, this is a dazzling Idomeneo, says Andrew Clements Zac Posen went onto co-host the night's most starry after party in Marquee with him. He is part of the starry ensemble in Stephen Fry's Evelyn Waugh adaptation Bright Young Things. Despite a starry cast - Joaquin Phoenix, Adrien Brody, William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver - the film's try at myth-making makes it ponderous. And director Gore Verbinski, whose last outing as helmer was the spooky thriller The Ring, handles the action with aplomb while still bringing the best out of his starry cast. The action is set against an original score by composer Deirdre Gribbin, Stein's wife, while the starry cast also includes Susannah York and Anne Marie Duff. Mark Elder conducts a starry cast, led by Simon Keenlyside and Vesselina Kasarova, with a rare cameo appearance (in London) by the veteran Renato Bruson. The cast is appreciably less starry than the 1969 production, though this has the effect of focusing attention more on the text than the performance. The starry cast is led by Ralph Fiennes as Mark Antony, Simon Russell Beale as Cassius, Paul Rhys as Brutus, Fiona Shaw as Portia and John Shrapnel as Caesar. A starry cast - including Susan Sarandon, Jeff Goldblum and Claire Danes - is assembled on the Long Island set of Igby Goes Down. The government in particular will be hoping that the public tires of the Hutton inquiry as is stretches into its second and third weeks and beyond, but the starry cast list makes this unlikely. Renee Robinson and Jeffrey Gerodias led the company, the brightest stars in a starry firmament: fluid Ellington, often classical ballet, always Ailey. He heads a starry cast that includes Robbie Coltrane, John Cleese and Dame Maggie Smith. Any reasonably sensible person who had seen the movie would know that a stage adaptation couldn't possibly work, but that, apparently, didn't prevent a number of starry names from signing up to the project. This 1953 recording was the first on LP, as opposed to 78s, and its starry cast attracted a wide audience. Derivatives starrily adverb It blooms about March 20th here, slight and silver-gray in the bud, but opening out starrily in warm sunshine to reveal the warmer colour of the inner sepals and the hot orange stigmata. Example sentencesExamples The stone is in the centre of this section of the exhibition and, appropriately, the broken edges of the black stela glitter starrily. A starrily cast opera-in-concert has traditionally been the highlight and hottest ticket of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra season. Though not as starrily cast, and by no means perfect, this Barber is packed with razor sharp humour, and the musical standards are very high. It is witty, surface-clever, starrily cast, and wholly British. starriness noun His starriness and vanity, while less on display than usual this time - even his hair has been looking pretty normal - are easily lampooned. Example sentencesExamples Her starriness has a challenging, irritating twinkle peculiar to her. It's that irrepressible mix of ordinariness and starriness. Perhaps it's also that she's not yet used to the starriness of it all. George Clooney, along with his well-groomed gang of merry thieves, are all too happy to coast on their combined starriness and lounge like catalogue models in exotic European locations. Rhymes askari, Bari, Cagliari, calamari, Campari, charivari, curare, Ferrari, Harare, Kalahari, Mari, Mata Hari, Qatari, Rastafari, safari, sari, Scutari, shikari, sparry, Stradivari, tamari, terramare, Vasari, Zanzibari Definition of starry in US English: starry adjectiveˈstɑriˈstärē 1Full of or lit by stars. a starry sky Example sentencesExamples The nights come with late night discussions under the starry sky cooled by strong, cool, humid gusts of wind. He glanced up at the full moon hanging in the clear, starry sky. This time, instead of a colorful sunset, it's a starry night sky. Then you wait for a few moments, silently marvelling at the beautiful starry night and the almost magical stillness. I see myself now under a big wide starry sky - the same stars I used to gaze at as a child by dad's side. Countryside campaigners have launched a campaign to save North and East Yorkshire's starry night sky. When they helicopter began to descend to the earth, the clouds from the sky had somewhat blown away, to give way to a clear starry night sky. It reminded me visually and spatially of how it feels to be very little and gaze up at the sky on a clear and starry night. I go outside in the cold to get to the breaker box and find I'm standing in the alley beneath a perfectly clear and starry sky. We passed through channels edged by emerald mountains and snowcapped volcanoes; the starry night skies were unsurpassable. She gazed up at the starry night sky and thought about her future. The North-east monsoon showers have heralded the coming of the season of chilly nights, starry skies and misty mornings in the city. Maybe because (for some reason I'm not sure of) it reminds me of being outside on a cool October night, under a starry sky. Hung on the wall in a grid, the paintings resemble a starry night sky - the gorgeous and serendipitous result of a very mechanical process. Week after week there were clear skies by day and starry skies at night. Alex gazed out the window into the starry night sky. Sarah stared out the window watching the sky fade from a multitude of color to a black starry night. The Christmas tree is decorated with coloured lights because they remind us of the stars flickering through the branches on a cold starry winter night. I sealed the letter and stared out the window at the starry night sky, imagining that Alex was staring at the same sky in Krakow. In this poem, Longley acknowledges that in spite of his long experience as a professional poet, he finds it difficult to describe, to put into words, the starry night sky that he observes. 1.1 Resembling a star in brightness or shape. tiny white starry flowers Example sentencesExamples Its leaves are a deep glossy-green and it bears fragrant, starry, white flowers that are frequented by butterflies. He looked to Juan, eyes bright and starry. Allium aflatunense (native to Iran) has dense spherical umbels of starry lilac-purple flowers (the puffball effect) on stems two to three feet tall. He was running across a field that bore only the most luminous, starry flowers in existence. Bluebeard comes on strong in spring with silvery, almost-white toothed foliage, followed by the clearest blue, starry flowers in late summer. After an initial flash of light, of a painful but very starry brightness everywhere, the world went suddenly dark, and life seemed to be draining from my limbs, along with my consciousness. The starry pink and white flowers of Daphne x burkwoodii in spring are so small it's hard to believe they can release such a huge scent. Guttering sweet oil lamps hooded with brass-stamped patterns make glowing starry shapes on the walls and ceiling. This will brighten you up and let your starry eyes shine! Indeed, aster, the Latin word for star, aptly describes the starry flower heads. A starry cascade of bright lights flew out, accompanied by a score of rockets. This heavy bloomer gets its name from the way each flower bud swells before its starry petals unfold. Their flower clusters differ from lacecaps in that some varieties produce sterile flowers with petallike sepals, while others bear smaller fertile flowers with starry petals.
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