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Starry vs Starly - What's the difference?

starry | starly |

As adjectives the difference between starry and starly

is that starry is having stars visible while starly is (nonstandard) of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a star or stars; astral.

As an adverb starly is

(nonstandard) in a starly manner.

starry

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Having stars visible.
    • Starry starry night, Portraits hung in empty halls, Frameless heads on nameless walls, With eyes that watch the world and can't forget - a song about called "Vincent (Starry, Starry Night)"
  • Shaped like a star.

    • starly

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • (nonstandard) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a star or stars; astral.
  • * 1962 , Jozef Marie Antoon Janssen, International Association of Egyptologists, Bibliographie égyptologique annuelle :
    • [...] The exact setting of position of the Pyramids with regard to the points of the compass; The ceremony of "Stretching Cord"; Constellation of the Great Bear; History of the starly guardians of the poles; [...]
  • * 1984 , Taehan Suhakhoe, Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society :
    • If g separates starly points from closed sets, g is a COC-map giving rise to a Nagata function as can be seen by the argument above.

    Adverb

    (en-adv)
  • (nonstandard) In a starly manner.
  • * 2004 , Ilkka Niiniluoto, Matti Sintonen, Jan Wole?ski, Handbook of epistemology :
    • For the sense-datum theory, we have a sense-datum produced by it as it was; on the adverbial view, we are sensing "starly " in the way we would have if we had received the relevant visual stimuli at the time the star produced them.
  • * 2010 , Ralph Ellison, John Callahan, Adam Bradley, Three Days Before the Shooting :
    • [...] and he could see the stars in the well again and there came again the rising feeling of falling well-ward into the watery sky, falling freely, well and sky, uply downly skyly, starly brightly well-ly wishing her mother No finish go [...]