Synonyms for stellar
ˈstɛl ərstel·lar

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1. leading(p), prima(p), star(p), starring(p), stellar(a)adjective

   indicating the most important performer or role

   "the leading man"; "prima ballerina"; "prima donna"; "a star figure skater"; "the starring role"; "a stellar role"; "a stellar performance"

   Antonyms:
   minor

2. stellar, astraladjective

   being or relating to or resembling or emanating from stars

   "an astral body"; "stellar light"

   Synonyms:
   prima(p), stellar(a), astral, star(p), leading(p), starring(p)

   Antonyms:
   minor

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1. stellaradjective

   Synonyms:
   astral, starry

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1. List of paraphrases for "stellar":

   stellate, brilliant

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How to use stellar in a sentence?

1. Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos:

   They were New York's power couple, he was a very, very stellar member of New York society. He owned a great deal of real estate. They had dinner parties. They had silver. They had china and fine linens.

2. Casey Lam:

   Whatever it is, the object is the first dark stellar remnant discovered wandering through Milky Way galaxy, unaccompanied by another star.

3. Erin Kara:

   Tidal disruption events offer us this rare view at the most common kind of supermassive black hole in the universe— these so-called dormant supermassive black holes, tidal disruption events, where the stellar debris causes the formation of a temporary accretion disk, offers us a way to probe this population of supermassive black holes.

4. Professor Lattanzio:

   We thought comet and asteroids traveling between stellar systems would be rare because of the distances involved, but now we have detected an example, in Oumuamua. The fact that we found an example so soon after developing telescopes argues that they must be rather more common than we thought.

5. Vander Plaats:

   I think they’re all three stellar potential 2024 candidates.