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starlike

adj · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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adj

Meaning 1

Resembling a star.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • Pluto's starlike appearance in the telescope was an early clue that it was not the large Planet X astronomers had hoped for.

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2

adj

Meaning 2

Resembling or characteristic of a celebrity or leading actor.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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3

adj

Meaning 3

Convex; having the property that any line segment joining any mapped point to a specified point in the domain lies entirely in the domain.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: geometry, mathematics, sciences

Examples

  • the growth theorem for holomorphic starlike mappings

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4

adjective satellite

Meaning 4

resembling a star

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • they saw a starlike object in the sky

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History

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h2eHs- Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *h2stḗr Proto-Germanic *sternǭ Proto-West Germanic *sternō Proto-West Germanic *sterrō Old English steorra Middle English sterre English star Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-West Germanic *-līk Old English -līċ Middle English -like English -like English starlike From star + -like.