starry

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  1. adjective Marked or set with stars or starlike objects.
  2. adjective Shining or glittering like stars.
  3. adjective Shaped like a star.

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  • It was one of our first really good springtime parking nights outside--starry, clear, and just cool enough to encourage cuddling Lee was a fellow hot rodder, a tall, lanky, slightly homely farm boy who met all of the qualifications for "damn nice guy," while Estelle was a sweet little pretty-plain brunette who could see the value in the damn nice guys of the world. —  EQMM,June2006
  • The filmmakers at Disney betray their young heroine by defining her simply as a starry-eyed teenybopper finding and losing her first boyfriend. —  F ;SF; - vol 104 issue 03 - March 2003
  • Not praising "David Petraeus 'genius" like a starry-eye sports fan. —  The Blue Voice
  • "She has the same energy and enthusiasm as a starry-eyed, first-year teacher with their whole career before them." —  The Herald-Mail Online
  • On the other hand, Rachel McAdams's character Della is a writer for the internet edition of the same paper who acts more like a starry-eyed seventeen year old than most of the young, savvy political bloggers that exist in the real world. —  Fat Guys at the Movies
 

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  1. from Middle English sterry, sterri; from star + -y.
 

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/ˈstɑri/
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