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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Starry \Star"ry\ (st[aum]r"r[y^]), adjective
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.
{Starry ray} (Zo["o]l.), a European skate ({Raia radiata}); -- so called from the stellate bases of the dorsal spines.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
starry
adjective: abounding with or resembling stars; "a starry night"; "starry eyes" [ant: {starless}] [also: {starriest}, {starrier}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
86 Moby Thesaurus words for "starry": Cynthian, aglow, anagalactic, asteroidal, astral, astrologic, astrologistic, astrologous, astronomic, astrophysical, beaming, beamy, blushing, bright and sunny, burning, candescent, celestial, circumplanetary, cislunar, empyreal, empyrean, equinoctial, extragalactic, flushing, galactic, gleaming, gleamy, glinting, glowing, heavenly, heliacal, illuminant, incandescent, intercosmic, interplanetary, intersidereal, interstellar, irradiative, lamping, light as day, luciferous, lucific, luciform, luminant, luminative, luminiferous, luminificent, luminous, lunar, lunary, lunate, lunular, lunulate, lustrous, meteoric, meteoritic, nebular, nebulose, nebulous, orient, planetal, planetarian, planetary, planetesimal, radiant, rutilant, rutilous, semilunar, shining, shiny, sidereal, solar, sphery, star-spangled, star-studded, starbright, starlike, stellar, stellary, streaming, suffused, sunny, sunshiny, terrestrial, uranic, zodiacal
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