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[ UK /stˈɛlɐ/ ]
[ US /ˈstɛɫɝ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. being or relating to or resembling or emanating from stars
    stellar light
    an astral body
  2. indicating the most important performer or role
    a star figure skater
    the leading man
    prima ballerina
    a stellar performance
    prima donna
    the starring role
    a stellar role

How To Use stellar In A Sentence

  • As being consistent with the unit of distance, I have proposed for the stellar unit of time a _stellar year_ Lectures on Stellar Statistics
  • All three leads are simply stellar in their roles and the interactions ring absolutely true.
  • The companion star would emit plenty of its own UV radiation, but this radiation would be blocked in the direction of Eta Carinae by the thick nebulosity of the giant star's surrounding gas, dust, and stellar wind.
  • Adopting, the additional computative burden imposed by it notwithstanding, Schonfeld's modification of Airy's formulæ, he introduced into his equations a fifth unknown quantity expressive of a possible stellar drift in galactic longitude. Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891
  • Signum magnum apparuit in coelo: mulier amicta sole, et luna sub pedibus ejus, et in capite ejus corona stellarum duodecim. Archive 2008-08-01
  • [12] The original reference to experience from which the meaning of the term astronavigation should be derived is not essentially "space-travel," but forms of transoceanic navigation which take into account the effects specific to changes in specific astronomical experiences, from fixed to variable, which are relevant to transoceanic navigation within what had appeared, initially, as a permanently fixed set of changes within the ordering of the planets or specifically stellar phenomena. LaRouche's Latest
  • These low-aspect-ratio stellarator-tokamak hybrids differ from conventional stellarators in their use of the plasma-generated bootstrap current to supplement the poloidal field from external coils.
  • They added a new character, played by Andrew Howard, who is a stellar actor and one of those actors who just kind of electrifies you on set and pulls you in. Pretty/Scary
  • Resolution has rewarded its shareholders with a double-digit increase in the dividend and promised stellar investment returns despite putting acquisitions on hold. Times, Sunday Times
  • New stellarators beat the confinement problem by creating a quasi-symmetric field - trading fiendishly complex magnetic fields for fiendishly complex magnets.
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