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Starkly

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Adverb

1. starkly

in a stark manner

Example Sentences:
'He was starkly unable to achieve coherence'

2. starkly

in sharp outline or contrast

Example Sentences:
'the black walls rose starkly from the snow'

3. starkly

in a blunt manner

Example Sentences:
'in starkly realistic terms'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Starkly

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adjective
1. (usually prenominal)
devoid of any elaboration; blunt
the stark facts
2. 
grim; desolate
a stark landscape
3. (usually prenominal)
utter; absolute
stark folly
4. archaic
severe; violent
5. archaic or poetic
rigid, as in death (esp in the phrase stiff and stark)
6.  short for stark-naked
adverb
7. 
completely
stark mad
stark dead
noun
1. (stɑːk )
Dame Freya (Madeline) (ˈfreɪə). 1893–1993, British traveller and writer, whose many books include The Southern Gates of Arabia (1936), Beyond Euphrates (1951), and The Journey's Echo (1963)
2. (German ʃtark)
Johannes (joˈhanəs). 1874–1957, German physicist, who discovered the splitting of the lines of a spectrum when the source of light is subjected to a strong electrostatic field (Stark effect, 1913): Nobel prize for physics 1919

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Starkly

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adjective
1. 
a. 
stiff or rigid, as a corpse
b. 
rigorous; harsh; severe
stark discipline
2. 
sharply outlined or prominent
one stark tree
3. 
bleak; desolate; barren
stark wasteland
4. 
a. 
emptied; stripped
stark shelves
b. 
totally naked; bare
5. 
grimly blunt; unsoftened, unembellished, etc.
stark realism
6. 
sheer; utter; downright; unrelieved
stark terror
7.  Archaic
strong; powerful
adverb
8. 
in a stark manner; esp., utterly; wholly
stark mad

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Starkly

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adj. stark·er, stark·est
1. Clearly distinguished or delineated: a stark contrast.
2.
a. Bare, desolate, or unadorned: an apartment with stark white walls; the stark beauty of the desert landscape.
b. Severe or unmitigated; harsh or grim: "[They] found it hard to accept such a stark portrait of unrelieved failure" (W. Bruce Lincoln).
3. Complete or utter; extreme: stark disbelief.
adv.
Utterly; entirely: stark raving mad.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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