diff --git a/src/plugins/clangcodemodel/clangdclient.cpp b/src/plugins/clangcodemodel/clangdclient.cpp
index f4596dcb14e..0cd258ba210 100644
--- a/src/plugins/clangcodemodel/clangdclient.cpp
+++ b/src/plugins/clangcodemodel/clangdclient.cpp
@@ -2711,7 +2711,8 @@ static void semanticHighlighter(QFutureInterface<HighlightingResult> &future,
                     if (detail.startsWith("operator")) {
                         return !detail.contains('=')
                                 && !detail.contains("++") && !detail.contains("--")
-                                && !detail.contains("<<") && !detail.contains(">>");
+                                && !detail.contains("<<") && !detail.contains(">>")
+                                && !detail.contains("*");
                     }
                     firstChildTree << n.children().value_or(QList<AstNode>());
                 }
diff --git a/src/plugins/clangcodemodel/test/clangdtests.cpp b/src/plugins/clangcodemodel/test/clangdtests.cpp
index adaa705cb85..462b91f5092 100644
--- a/src/plugins/clangcodemodel/test/clangdtests.cpp
+++ b/src/plugins/clangcodemodel/test/clangdtests.cpp
@@ -1308,6 +1308,8 @@ void ClangdTestHighlighting::test_data()
                                 << QList<int>{C_PREPROCESSOR} << 0;
     QTest::newRow("built-in define 3") << 952 << 21 << 952 << 40
                                 << QList<int>{C_PREPROCESSOR} << 0;
+    QTest::newRow("deref operator (object)") << 960 << 10 << 960 << 11 << QList<int>{C_LOCAL} << 0;
+    QTest::newRow("deref operator (member)") << 960 << 12 << 960 << 13 << QList<int>{C_FIELD} << 0;
 }
 
 void ClangdTestHighlighting::test()
diff --git a/src/plugins/clangcodemodel/test/data/highlighting/highlighting.cpp b/src/plugins/clangcodemodel/test/data/highlighting/highlighting.cpp
index 2ef28c11ba5..31ddb82a00c 100644
--- a/src/plugins/clangcodemodel/test/data/highlighting/highlighting.cpp
+++ b/src/plugins/clangcodemodel/test/data/highlighting/highlighting.cpp
@@ -951,3 +951,12 @@ void builtinDefines()
     const auto f2 = __FUNCTION__;
     const auto f3 = __PRETTY_FUNCTION__;
 }
+
+void derefOperator()
+{
+    struct S { bool operator*(); };
+    struct S2 { S s; };
+    S2 s;
+    if (*s.s)
+        return;
+}