starkly

1. 1.

   in a stark manner

   “He was starkly unable to achieve coherence”
2. 2.

   in sharp outline or contrast

   “the black walls rose starkly from the snow”
3. 3.

   in a blunt manner

   “in starkly realistic terms”

Questions about starkly

What does starkly mean?

starkly means "in a stark manner". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in starkly?

starkly has 2 syllables: star-kly. The stress falls on "star". In IPA it is /ˈstɑɹkli/.

Is starkly a common word?

starkly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.