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Webster 1913 Edition


Starlike

Star′likeˊ

(-līkˊ)
,
Adj.
1.
Resembling a star; stellated; radiated like a star;
as,
starlike
flowers
.
2.
Shining; bright; illustrious.
Dryden.
The having turned many to righteousness shall confer a
starlike
and immortal brightness.
Boyle.

Webster 1828 Edition


Starlike

STARLIKE

,
Adj.
[star and like.]
1.
Resembling a star; stellated; radiated like a star; as starlike flowers.
2.
Bright; illustrious.
The having turned many to righteousness shall confer a starlike and immortal brightness.

Definition 2024


starlike

starlike

English

Adjective

starlike (comparative more starlike, superlative most starlike)

  1. Resembling a star, especially in shape.
    • 2007 September 16, Lawrence K. Altman, “4 Winners of Lasker Medical Prize”, in New York Times:
      For example, long projections emerged from the cells and floated before they retracted, creating a starlike pattern.
  2. Resembling or characteristic of a celebrity or leading actor.
  3. (geometry) 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

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