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 How did Coco Gauff get the job done on a day of tussle for top stars? — Ava Wallace, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026 Off the runway, street style stars have started adapting the color trend to their own personal style. — Elise Fabre, Glamour, 5 Sep. 2026 Every so often, the British writer-director Mike Leigh makes a movie in which the stars — and the tartly casual dramatic scenes — line up, coalescing into a full-on vision of prickly humanity. — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026 While it wasn’t held in the city of stars, plenty of stars came out to celebrate the 10th anniversary of La La Land. — Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 5 Sep. 2026 Moranis participated in a panel discussion alongside co-stars Daphne Zuniga, Josh Gad, Keke Palmer and Lewis Pullman as well as director Josh Greenbaum and screenwriters Benji Samit and Dan Hernandez. — Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2026 While the sport can be expensive to get into, with high costs for coaching, equipment, and club memberships, some of the sport’s top stars have come from families without enormous fortunes. — Preston Fore, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2026 Love was unclear on the reasons for her volte-face, but speculated that Sky had failed to convince Bake Off stars like Paul Hollywood to make the switch. — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 29 Aug. 2026 The character was loosely based on NASCAR driver Tim Richmond, the wildly talented Ohio native who was one of the sport's biggest stars at the time. — Greg Engle, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for stars

Noun

There are, by various estimates, several trillion planets within what is known as the Local Group of galaxies—our closest galaxy neighbors, including our own Milky Way.

— Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 1 Sep. 2026
Rogue stars could be the answer The key to this mystery could lie in the fact that most stars don't orbit the centers of their galaxies where supermassive black holes dwell alone, instead existing in binary partnerships.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of galaxies

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Things could be better, which goes without saying in the aftermath of a flu pandemic that has wiped out most of the planet’s human population, but the four principals here could also be dead, so there’s that.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 26 Aug. 2026
Soliz said Tuesday that district leadership has already begun working with principals at campuses across the district to make sure individual needs are met at each campus through the leveling process.

— Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of principals

Noun

Such streamers are thought to be how stars grow, delivering mass onto nascent suns.

— Keith Cooper, Space.com, 17 Aug. 2026
The prevalence of LRDs in the early universe would align with the emergence of supermassive black holes, each weighing millions to billions of suns apiece, which astronomers spy at the hearts of large galaxies.

— Lee Billings, Scientific American, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of suns

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Those are the headliners among many moves on defense, including hiring 34-year-old Christian Parker as defensive coordinator after Matt Eberflus lasted just one season.

— ABC News, ABC News, 31 Aug. 2026
Now, one element of great balance is there’s not a ton of headliners, stars.

— Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of headliners

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Conferences have rushed to ban it, while prominent personalities like Ohio State's Ryan Day have spoken out against it.

— Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 2 Sep. 2026
The stars vying for this year’s Mirrorball trophy include actors, reality TV personalities and a Paralympian gold medalist.

— Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of personalities

Noun

But Jarmond later worked with a search committee that included prominent UCLA figures Bob Myers, Adam Peters and Casey Wasserman on the hiring of Bob Chesney, who quickly injected hope and optimism into the football program.

— Ira Gorawara, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2026
The backlash went beyond online and reached political figures like New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin, who sent The Met committee a letter urging them to reconsider honoring Galliano.

— Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of figures

Noun

Cousy was one of the NBA's first superstars as the dazzling point guard on the dynastic Boston Celtics before retiring in 1963 after winning his fifth straight NBA title and his 12th All-NBA selection.

— ABC News, ABC News, 1 Sep. 2026
And their superstars responded Sunday afternoon with an offensive explosion.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 30 Aug. 2026