Stark

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Bare or blunt: "His language has become increasingly stark, to the point of sounding strident” ( Robert Pear).
  • adj. Complete or utter; extreme: stark poverty; a stark contrast.
  • adj. Harsh; grim: "faced with that stark future” ( Robert C. McFarlane). "[They] found it hard to accept such a stark portrait of unrelieved failure” ( W. Bruce Lincoln).
  • ad. Utterly; entirely: stark raving mad.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Hard, firm; obdurate.
  • adj. Severe; violent; fierce (now usually in describing the weather).
  • adj. Strong; vigorous; powerful.
  • adj. Stiff, rigid.
  • adj. Hard in appearance; barren, desolate.
  • adj. Complete, absolute, full.
  • ad. starkly; entirely, absolutely
  • v. To stiffen.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Stiff; rigid.
  • adj. Complete; absolute; full; perfect; entire.
  • adj. Strong; vigorous; powerful.
  • adj. Severe; violent; fierce.
  • adj. Mere; sheer; gross; entire; downright.
  • ad. Wholly; entirely; absolutely; quite.
  • v. To stiffen.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Stiff; rigid, as in death.
  • Stubborn; stiff; severe.
  • Stout; stalwart; strong; powerful.
  • Great; long.
  • Entire; perfect; utter; downright; sheer; pure; mere.
  • Wholly; entirely; absolutely: used with a few particular adjectives, as stark dead, stark blind, stark drunk, stark mad, stark naked, rarely with other adjectives.
  • To make stark, stiff, or rigid, as in death.
  • Naked; bare.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment
  • ad. completely
  • adj. without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
  • adj. complete or extreme
  • adj. providing no shelter or sustenance
  • adj. severely simple
    • Equivalent
    unconditional    unconditioned    unmitigated    immoderate    inhospitable    plain   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    stiff    rigid    complete    absolute    full    perfect    entire    strong    vigorous    powerful   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Ark    Clark    Clarke    Lark    Marc    Mark    Merc    Park    Sark    Spark   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    bleak    grim    bare    barren    ghastly    sombre    startle    dim    gaunt    lifeless   
     
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