Meanings
starred1
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of star
starred2
- not comparableHaving a star or stars.
a Michelin-starred restaurant
2 more examples
She became sad, and looked up to the many-starred sky; her soul uttered silently the bitter complaint of its own misery.
1823, Mary Shelley, ValpergaThe Michelin system is not what it used to be. According to a report by University College London, starred restaurants are statistically more likely to close down than highly rated venues without the accolade.
2025 February 14, Morwenna Ferrier, “‘Butter is a perception’: inside the UK’s first plant-based Michelin-starred restaurant”, in The Guardian, →ISSN - not comparablehuman sciencesJudged as ungrammatical.
It will also be important to keep in mind that each starred example can be made grammatical by the substitution of a suitable determinate NP in place of the indeterminate one.
1989 [1976], Howard Lasnik, “Remarks on Coreference”, in Essays on Anaphora, Dordrecht: Springer, →DOI, page 103
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivemarked with an asterisk
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
starred · adjective
- Middle Englishsterred
- Englishstarred
From Middle English sterred, equivalent to star (noun) + -ed.
More words from Middle English
Full word history & related roots →Translations
French étoilé
- étoiléhaving a star
Spanish destacados
- destacadoshaving a star
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starred. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/starred
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