STARS Synonyms: 91 Similar and Opposite Words

stars

noun

plural of star

as in galaxies

a ball-shaped gaseous celestial body that shines by its own light it's difficult to see the stars at night in the middle of the city because of all the streetlights

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as in principals

the person who has the most important role in a play, movie, or TV show when the star of the school play came down with the flu on opening night, her understudy got to go on

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as in celebrities

a person who is widely known and usually much talked about the public's endless fascination with stars

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Recent Examples of stars Wolf-Rayet Stars Even the tiniest of stars is humbling on a human scale. — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 30 Oct. 2026 At a rally in Corpus Christi, staff verified guests by sticking gold stars on them—a callback of sorts to Talarico’s days as a public-school educator. — Jesús Rodríguez, New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2026 The 2024 Dodgers, with Shohei Ohtani coming off the first 50-50 season in history and a long list of other stars, were down 2-1 in the NLDS to the Padres before coming back to win. — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 29 Oct. 2026 As California decides whether to slap billionaires with a special tax, the Golden State’s swarm of social media stars is chiming in — and increasingly getting paid to influence voters. — Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026 But there are many theories about why people are attracted to true crime, with serial killers being the stars of that world. — Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2026 Starting the Vega Foundation was an attempt to connect with such stars in the making. — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 22 Oct. 2026 Charlotte’s dining scene is shining bright among the stars of the South once again. — Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 22 Oct. 2026 Sabrina Carpenter, Julia Roberts and Oprah were among the stars who paid tribute to Dolly Parton during the Country Music Association’s celebration of the late country icon Wednesday night. — Payton Turkeltaub, Variety, 22 Oct. 2026

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Noun

Turn the volume up and that pinhole dilates, revealing swirling galaxies of vocal harmonies, upright bass plucks, and cascading piano runs.

— Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 23 Oct. 2026
Stupendously large black holes greater than 1 million billion to 10 million billion suns in mass would be heavier than entire galaxies.

— Charles Q. Choi, Space.com, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of galaxies

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Eighty-six percent of family-office principals and senior executives are including crypto in their investment strategies.

— Angelica Ang, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
Private equity and venture capital are the top two categories expected to receive more investments among Gen Z and millennial principals, at 41% each.

— Robert Frank, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of principals

Noun

Catering to VICs and celebrities, Lepire says that her clients are often planning for rarefied parties, and come to Timeless Vixen to source vintage couture pieces that will elevate their look.

— Joe Bobowicz, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2026
She was inducted into the Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame in 2010 and was among the first celebrities honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

— Mya Copeland, Variety, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of celebrities

Noun

So far, astronomers have not detected any stupendously large black holes — currently, the largest black hole known may weigh about 36 billion suns.

— Charles Q. Choi, Space.com, 23 Oct. 2026
On July 2, 2025, a burst with energy equivalent to 1,000 suns blazing for 10 billion years lit up Fermi’s detectors, heading from a dusty galaxy about eight billion light-years from Earth.

— Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of suns

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Pop culture observers in recent years surely remember the backlash to Super Bowl headliners like Kendrick Lamar and Bad Bunny — all of it at least culturally conservative, and much of it frankly just racist.

— Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2026
Those metrics are comparable to or superior to the charting history of several past Super Bowl halftime show headliners since 2010, including Maroon 5, Coldplay, Shakira, Justin Timberlake, and The Who.

— Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of headliners

Noun

The cost figures draw on the Family Budget Calculator developed by the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute from federal data on rents, food costs and consumer spending, with The Post’s own health care estimates.

— Amy L. Wong, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2026
Another star turn goes to Mary Ellen Pleasant, who was arguably America’s first Black millionaire and inarguably one of the most canny and chameleonlike figures this country has ever produced.

— Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of figures

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Some also have other antiaging superstars like retinol, brightening ingredients like vitamin C, antioxidants like vitamin E, or niacinamide (a form of vitamin B3) to strengthen the skin barrier.

— Christa Joanna Lee, Glamour, 23 Oct. 2026
But superstars can do that, especially when the opposition has no way of clamping down on their output.

— Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2026