stellar

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin stēllāris.

Pronunciation

• enPR: stĕl'ər
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈstɛlə/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈstɛlɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛlə(ɹ)
• Homophones: steller, Steller; Stella, stella (non-rhotic)
• Hyphenation: stel‧lar

Adjective

stellar (comparative more stellar, superlative most stellar)

1. (astronomy, not comparable) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of stars.

   Synonyms: astral, starly

2. Heavenly.
3. (by extension) Exceptional, exceptionally good.

   Synonym: wonderful

   The actress gave a stellar performance.

   • 1931, Music and Dance, volume 21, Melbourne, Vic.: Australian Musical News Pub. Co., →OCLC, page 27, column 2:

     Some years ago there were hundreds of musicians of ability, but of less stellar renown, who toured the country, giving performances at less than stellar fees.

   • 1970, Hardware Age, volume 205, New York, N.Y.: David Williams Co., →OCLC, page 8, column 1:

     Yet the economic seers are at it again, seemingly unabashed by their somewhat less than stellar performances in 1969.

   • 2012, Linda A. Jenkins, “What is Social Lending?”, in Creative Financing: How to Get a Small Business Loan without a Banker, Gold Alliance Group, →ISBN, page 1:

     Where a bank may automatically reject any borrower based on a bad credit score, this is not true for all social lending networks. You can still have a less than stellar score and obtain funding as long as you can convince a peer tha your project is worthy or your business model is strong.

Antonyms

• astellar
• nonstellar

Coordinate terms

• starry

Derived terms

• bistellar
• interstellar
• interstellar comet
• interstellar medium
• interstellar planet
• interstellar space
• less than stellar
• quasi-stellar
• quasi-stellar object
• quasi-stellar radio-source
• quasi-stellar radio source
• quasi-stellar radiosource
• stellar black hole
• stellar day
• stellar disk
• stellar engine
• stellarite
• stellar mass black hole
• stellar month
• stellar nova
• stellar nursery
• stellar population
• stellar system
• Stellarton
• stellar wind

Translations

of, pertaining to, or characteristic of stars

Albanian: yjor (sq) Arabic: نَجْمِيّ (najmiyy) Belarusian: зо́рны (zórny) Bulgarian: зве́зден (zvézden) Catalan: estel·lar (ca) Czech: hvězdný (cs) Dutch: stellair (nl), de sterren betreffend Estonian: tāhe- Evenki: о̄сиктачӣ (ōsiktaçī), о̄сӣктачӣ (ōsīktaçī) Finnish: tähti- French: stellaire (fr) German: stellar (de), Stern- (de) Greek: αστρικός (el) m (astrikós) Hindi: तारकीय (tārkīya) Ido: stelala Irish: réaltach Italian: stellare (it) Kazakh: жұлдыздық (jūldyzdyq), жұлдызды (jūldyzdy) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: ئەستێرەیی (estêreyî) Latin: stēllāris Lithuanian: žvaigždinis Macedonian: ѕвезден (dzvezden) Manchu: ᡠᠰᡳᡥᠠᠩᡤᠠ (usihangga) Polish: gwiezdny (pl), gwiazdowy (pl), stelarny (pl) Portuguese: estelar (pt) Romanian: stelar (ro) Russian: звёздный (ru) (zvjózdnyj), звездообра́зный (ru) (zvezdoobráznyj) Sanskrit: तारकीय f (tārakīya), तारिकिणी (tārikiṇī) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: звѐздан, звјѐздан Roman: zvèzdan (sh), zvjèzdan (sh) Slovak: hviezdny (sk) Slovene: zvezden Spanish: estelar (es) Swedish: stjärn-, stellär (sv) Ukrainian: зо́ряний (zórjanyj) Uzbek: yulduzli (uz) Yakut: сулустаах (sulustaaq)

heavenly

Bulgarian: небесен (bg) (nebesen) Dutch: hemels (nl) Finnish: taivaallinen (fi) Greek: ουράνιος (el) m (ouránios) Russian: небе́сный (ru) (nebésnyj)

exceptional; wonderful

Chinese: Mandarin: 优秀 (zh) (yōuxiù), 出色 (zh) (chūsè) Dutch: briljant (nl), uitstekend (nl) Finnish: loistava (fi), erinomainen (fi) French: exceptionnel (fr), exemplaire (fr), excellent (fr), brillant (fr), extraordinaire (fr) German: brillant (de), ausgezeichnet (de) Greek: αξιοσημείωτος (el) m (axiosimeíotos), διακεκριμένος (el) m (diakekriménos) Hindi: असाधारण (hi) (asādhāraṇ) Romanian: strălucitor (ro) n Russian: выдаю́щийся (ru) (vydajúščijsja), чуде́сный (ru) (čudésnyj)

Anagrams

• Staller, staller

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃtɛˈlaːɐ̯/, /stɛˈlaːɐ̯/
• Rhymes: -aːɐ̯

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Adjective

stellar (strong nominative masculine singular stellarer, not comparable)

1. (relational) star; stellar

Declension

Positive forms of stellar (uncomparable)

number & gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter
predicative		er ist stellar	sie ist stellar	es ist stellar	sie sind stellar
strong declension (without article)	nominative	stellarer	stellare	stellares	stellare
	genitive	stellaren	stellarer	stellaren	stellarer
	dative	stellarem	stellarer	stellarem	stellaren
	accusative	stellaren	stellare	stellares	stellare
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	der stellare	die stellare	das stellare	die stellaren
	genitive	des stellaren	der stellaren	des stellaren	der stellaren
	dative	dem stellaren	der stellaren	dem stellaren	den stellaren
	accusative	den stellaren	die stellare	das stellare	die stellaren
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	ein stellarer	eine stellare	ein stellares	(keine) stellaren
	genitive	eines stellaren	einer stellaren	eines stellaren	(keiner) stellaren
	dative	einem stellaren	einer stellaren	einem stellaren	(keinen) stellaren
	accusative	einen stellaren	eine stellare	ein stellares	(keine) stellaren

Derived terms

• interstellar

Further reading

• “stellar” in Duden online
• “stellar” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache