starry Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective abounding with or resembling stars
    • a starry night
    • starry illumination

WordNet

Star"ry adjective
Definitions
  1. Abounding with stars; adorned with stars. "Above the starry sky." Pope.
  2. Consisting of, or proceeding from, the stars; stellar; stellary; as, starry light; starry flame.
    Do not Christians and Heathens, Jews and Gentiles, poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influence? Sir W. Scott.
  3. Shining like stars; sparkling; as, starry eyes.
  4. Arranged in rays like those of a star; stellate.

Webster 1913