Synonyms for starkly
stark·ly

Princeton's WordNet

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. List of paraphrases for "starkly":

   strikingly, vividly

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1. 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.

2. 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

3. 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.

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. Kraig Powell:

   Like everything else we try in Utah liquor laws, it may sound a little strange to one side or the other, because the lines have been drawn so starkly in the past, it's really important to have some new, out-of-the-box thinking to try to have a breakthrough.