stellar

stellar

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Latin stēllārisbor.
English stellar

    Borrowed from Latin stēllāris.

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    stellar (comparative more stellar, superlative most stellar)

    1. (astronomy, not comparable) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of stars.
      Synonyms: astral, sidereal, starry, starly
      Antonym: nonstellar
    2. Heavenly.
    3. (by extension) Exceptional, exceptionally good.
      Synonyms: wonderful, excellent, brilliant, exceptional, superb, outstanding
      Antonyms: mediocre, poor, underwhelming, average
      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.

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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

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    Further reading

    • “stellar” in Duden online
    • “stellar”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German)
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