starlike

About 0.05 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Resembling a star.

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

2. adjective Resembling or characteristic of a celebrity or leading actor.
3. adjective Convex; having the property that any line segment joining any mapped point to a specified point in the domain lies entirely in the domain.

   the growth theorem for holomorphic starlike mappings

Similar words

starry astral starrish starfishlike starlinglike superstarry spherelike galaxylike flowerlike stelene

Often followed by

object flowers objects appearance pattern in eyes point points

Word family

star starless stars