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List of meaning for stark

plain; without decoration

blunt, crude(a), stark(a)(adj)

devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment

"the blunt truth"; "the crude facts"; "facing the stark reality of the deadline"

austere, severe, stark, stern(adj)

severely simple

"a stark interior"

stark(adj)

complete or extreme

"stark poverty"; "a stark contrast"

arrant(a), complete(a), consummate(a), double-dyed(a), everlasting(a), gross(a), perfect(a), pure(a), sodding(a), stark(a), staring(a), thoroughgoing(a), utter(a), unadulterated(adj)

without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers

"an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter nonsense"; "the unadulterated truth"

bare, barren, bleak, desolate, stark(adverb)

providing no shelter or sustenance

"bare rocky hills"; "barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark landscape"

stark(adverb)

completely

"stark mad"; "mouth stark open"

harsh and threatening in manner or appearance

stark and forbidding mountains that the settlers knew that they would have to cross

having no exceptions or restrictions

the school's stark prohibition against obscene slogans on clothing

lacking contents that could or should be present

house buyers trying to imagine what those stark rooms would look like when filled with furniture

producing inferior or only a small amount of vegetation

a once-lush landscape rendered depressingly stark by strip-mining and deforestation

providing only the essentials and nothing fancy or luxurious

monks who have committed themselves to living in stark cells and working and praying in silence

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