Definitions for starkly
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1. starklyadverb

   in a stark manner

   "He was starkly unable to achieve coherence"

2. starklyadverb

   in sharp outline or contrast

   "the black walls rose starkly from the snow"

3. starklyadverb

   in a blunt manner

   "in starkly realistic terms"

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1. starklyadverb

   With great contrast

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Starklyadverb

   Stiffly; strongly.

   Etymology: from stark.

   As fast lock’d up in sleep as guiltless labour,
   When it lies starkly in the traveller’s bones. William Shakespeare.

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1. starkly

   Starkly is an adverb that is used in description to mean in a way that is severe or harsh in appearance or outline, without any distraction or mitigation, or unimaginably or noticeably distinct, often to the point of being shocking or uncomfortable.

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1. Starklyadverb

   in a stark manner; stiffly; strongly

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Anagrams for starkly »

1. Krystal

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of starkly in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of starkly in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of starkly in a Sentence

1. Hunt Allcott:

   That starkly quantifies how important it is.

2. Lamine Diaby-Fadiga:

   That affected me mentally and my difficult situation contrasted starkly the success and aura of Kasper Dolbergs, my teammate, i took it out on Kasper Dolbergs without having any reason to do so, maybe a bit because of jealousy. Instead of trying to battle on the pitch to provide Kasper Dolbergs with competition for places, I reacted stupidly towards Kasper Dolbergs.

3. Prime Minister David Cameron:

   As the murders on the streets of Paris remind us so starkly ISIL (Islamic State) is not some remote problem thousands of miles away, it is a direct threat to our security at home and abroad.

4. Christian Odendahl:

   If you limit this along national lines, it would clearly be a disappointment because it would show quite starkly that the ECB is running up against its limits, draghi knows that the announcement itself will be the most important thing. I hope he is bold.

5. Rosy Cole:

   “Aberjhani's writing blows the mind and frees the psyche of any rigid assumptions about ancestral heritage. Here, our collective experience is starkly rendered. The transparency of one culture overlays another, and another, to form the daguerreotype of possibilities that is homo sapiens, interacting, almost like the elements themselves, with the created world and modified only by context and its imperatives.”-- from Circles and Arcs

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=starkly
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Starkly
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=starkly
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/starkly
6. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=starkly