Clarissa

American  

[kluh-ris-uh] / kləˈrɪs ə /

noun

1. a female given name, form of Clara.

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Example Sentences

Clarissa Stayrook drove in the game’s only run in the third inning with a single.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026

Joyce’s Leopold Bloom and Woolf’s Peter Walsh “are wanderers like Odysseus. Molly Bloom and Clarissa Dalloway are the women to whom Bloom and Peter return, as Odysseus returns to Penelope.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

The sheer geographic extent of the damage suggests that L.A.’s fires played a minimal role, said Clarissa Anderson of UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2025

“This used to be a fun field where the kids can come out and play baseball or kickball,” said Clarissa, a mother of three who declined to give her last name.

From BBC • Nov. 25, 2024

And surely, as mean as Judah was and as crazy as Clarissa might be, they would not let their own sister or her child go hungry.

From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson