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Definition: Starkly |
StarklyAdverb1. In a stark manner; "He was starkly unable to achieve coherence". 2. In sharp outline or contrast; "the black walls rose starkly from the snow". 3. In a blunt manner; "in starkly realistic terms". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "starkly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1604. (references) |
Crosswords: Starkly |
| English words defined with "starkly": candid. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Minorities | Haiti | Longstanding social and political animosities often are tied to cultural identification, skin color, and overlapping issues of class in this starkly inegalitarian society. (references) |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Nellie Connally | To tell me what was going on. And, otherwise, I was there just starkly alone. Well, there was a knock on the door. And I said, come in. And Lady Bird came in. |
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| "Starkly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Starkly" is used about 143 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 143 | 26,451 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "starkly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 纯然地. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | absolut (absolute, absolutely, complete, definitely, downright, outright, perfectly, strict, strictly, total, undivided, utterly, without fail). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | teljesen (absolutely, all, altogether, at all, clean, completely, consummately, entirely, from hub to tire up to the hub, full, fully, have sy by the leg, I am done to a frazzle, in full, it's all over with him, out and out, outright, perfectly, purely, quite, regularly, sheer, stark, thoroughly, through and through, to serve sy hand and foot, to the full, to write out, totally, utterly, wholly), mereven (rigidly, stiffly), erősen (acutely, far, firmly, forcefully, like a lion, robustfully, scone-hot, shrewdly, solidly, sturdily, to bring sg out in bold relief, to bring sg out in strong relief). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 굳어지. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | arklystay абсолютно (absolutely, sheerly, theoretically, totally, whatsoever). (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Starkly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: starkle, starky, sterrly, strkaly, sturly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "starkly" (pronounced stÄ"rklē) |
| 5 | -Ä" r k l ē | darkly, sparkly. |
| 3 | -k l ē | academically, acoustically, aerobically, aerodynamically, aesthetically, alchemically, algebraically, alphabetically, analytically, anatomically, angelically, apologetically, artistically, astronomically, athletically, authentically, automatically, basically, biologically, biweekly, blankly, briskly, brusquely, categorically, characteristically, chemically, chronologically, classically, cosmetically, democratically, demographically, diplomatically, dogmatically, domestically, dramatically, drastically, ecologically, economically, ecstatically, emphatically, energetically, enthusiastically, erratically, ethnically, euphemistically, fantastically, forensically, frankly, generically, genetically, geometrically, geopolitically, graphically, grotesquely, heroically, hypothetically, hysterically, ideologically, idiotically, ironically, likely, linguistically, logically, logistically, lyrically, mechanically, medically, meekly, metaphorically, microscopically, musically, newsweekly, numerically, obliquely, optically, organically, paradoxically, pathologically, phonetically, physiologically, poetically, practically, prickly, prolifically, psychologically, publically, publicly, quickly, radically, realistically, rhetorically, rhythmically, sarcastically, sickly, sleekly, slickly, specifically, sporadically, stoically, strategically, stylistically, symmetrically, synthetically, systematically, systemically, terrifically, thematically, theologically, thickly, tragically, typically, uncharacteristically, undiplomatically, uniquely, unlikely, unrealistically, vertically, volcanically, weakly, weekly. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-k-l-r-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: stalky, stylar. | |
-2 letters: artsy, aryls, karst, karts, kyars, kyats, larks, larky, lyart, salty, sarky, satyr, slaty, stalk, stark, stray, talks, talky, trays. | |
-3 letters: alky, alts, arks, arts, arty, aryl, kart, kats, kays, kyar, kyat, laky, lark, lars, last, lats, lays, rats, rays, ryas, salt, sark, skat, slat, slay, star, stay, talk, tars, task. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-k-l-r-s-t-y" | |
+2 letters: kalyptras. | |
+4 letters: tracklayers. | |
+5 letters: keratoplasty, tracklayings. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Quotations: Spoken 6. Usage Frequency 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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