Starlike

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Starlike \Star"like`\ (-l[imac]k`), a.
     1. Resembling a star; stellated; radiated like a star; as,
        starlike flowers.
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     2. Shining; bright; illustrious. --Dryden.


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              The having turned many to righteousness shall confer
              a starlike and immortal brightness.   --Boyle.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  starlike
       adj : resembling a star; "they saw a starlike object in the sky"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  40 Moby Thesaurus words for "starlike":
     aglow, beaming, beamy, blushing, bright and sunny, burning,
     candescent, flushing, gleaming, gleamy, glinting, glowing,
     illuminant, incandescent, irradiative, lamping, light as day,
     luciferous, lucific, luciform, luminant, luminative, luminiferous,
     luminificent, luminous, lustrous, orient, radiant, rutilant,
     rutilous, shining, shiny, star-pointed, star-shaped, starbright,
     starry, streaming, suffused, sunny, sunshiny