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Synonyms & Antonyms of stark
1
harsh and threatening in manner or appearance
- stark and forbidding mountains that the settlers knew that they would have to cross
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- fixed,
- hard,
- hardened,
- hardheaded,
- immovable,
- implacable,
- inflexible,
- ironhanded,
- mulish,
- obdurate,
- obstinate,
- rigid,
- self-willed,
- set,
- stiff,
- stubborn,
- unbending,
- uncompromising,
- unrelenting,
- unyielding,
- willful
- (or wilful)
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2
having no exceptions or restrictions
- the school's stark prohibition against obscene slogans on clothing
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- absolute,
- all-out,
- arrant,
- blank,
- blooming
- [chiefly British],
- bodacious
- [Southern & Midland],
- categorical
- (also categoric),
- clean,
- complete,
- consummate,
- crashing,
- damn,
- damned,
- dead,
- deadly,
- definite,
- downright,
- dreadful,
- fair,
- flat,
- flat-out,
- out-and-out,
- outright,
- perfect,
- plumb,
- profound,
- pure,
- rank,
- regular,
- sheer,
- simple,
- stone,
- straight-out,
- thorough,
- thoroughgoing,
- total,
- unadulterated,
- unalloyed,
- unconditional,
- unmitigated,
- unqualified,
- utter,
- very
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3
lacking contents that could or should be present
- house buyers trying to imagine what those stark rooms would look like when filled with furniture
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4
producing inferior or only a small amount of vegetation
- a once-lush landscape rendered depressingly stark by strip-mining and deforestation
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- barren,
- bony
- (also boney),
- dead,
- desolate,
- hardscrabble,
- impoverished,
- infertile,
- poor,
- unfertile,
- unproductive,
- waste
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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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The first known use of stark was before the 12th century
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