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harsh and threatening in manner or appearance<stark and forbidding mountains that the settlers knew that they would have to cross>— see grim 1
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having no exceptions or restrictions<the schoolʼs stark prohibition against obscene slogans on clothing>— see absolute 2
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lacking contents that could or should be present<house buyers trying to imagine what those stark rooms would look like when filled with furniture>— see empty 1
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producing inferior or only a small amount of vegetation<a once-lush landscape rendered depressingly stark by strip-mining and deforestation>— see barren 1
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