Synonyms for starry
ˈstɑr istar·ry

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1. starryadjective

   abounding with or resembling stars

   "a starry night"; "starry illumination"

   Antonyms:
   starless

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1. starryadjective

   Synonyms:
   bespangled, astral, stellar, stellary, radiated, stelliform

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1. List of paraphrases for "starry":

   stellate

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How to use starry in a sentence?

1. John Bolton:

   We know exactly what the risks are - them using negotiations to drag out the length of time they have to continue their nuclear, chemical, biological weapons programs and ballistic missiles, there's not any starry-eyed feeling among the group doing this.

2. Roland Racevskis:

   I think he can change people's views of socialism, but I'm not so starry-eyed to think it will be easy or he won't be attacked for it.

3. John Grunsfeld:

   Hubble has completely transformed our view of the universe, revealing the true beauty and richness of the cosmos, this vista of starry fireworks and glowing gas is a fitting image for our celebration of 25 years of amazing Hubble science.

4. Henry David Thoreau:

   If the day and the night are such that you greet them with with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, more elastic, more starry, more immortal--that is your success.

5. Gary Cabana:

   When they said I couldn’t go upstairs to see STARRY STARYY NIGHT EVER AGAIN I lost it.