starkly
/ˈstɑːkli
/adverb
1In a way that is severe or harsh in appearance or outline: the scar stood out starkly against his bronzed skin a starkly lit warehouse...
- This enthralling scene unfolds against a starkly white sky.
- They began using colour expressively, rather than to define space on the canvas, painting starkly simplified landscapes in brilliant colours.
- The most graphic and abstract of the works on display had predominantly white images starkly silhouetted against dark backgrounds.
1.1In an unpleasantly or sharply clear way: her motivations contrast starkly with Clara’s their ordeal starkly illustrates an inescapable reality the class divisions of the country were starkly revealed...
- The company's hardball approach has starkly highlighted the way America's tobacco politics have come to Britain.
- They are singing their praises for the starkly dualistic moral judgements that have defined this administration's foreign policy.
- She had written Nin a starkly honest letter in which she revealed how important Nin's work was to her.
- off (or out of) form
- off (or out of) one's head
- off (or way off) beam
- off (or wide of) the mark
- off-patent
- off-peak
- off-piste
- off-pitch
- off-plan
- off-planet
- off-price
- offprint
- off-put
- off-putter
- off-putting
- off-puttingly
- off-ramp
- off-reckoning
- off-reservation
- off-reserve
- offretite
- off-road
- off-roader
- off-roading
- off-road vehicle