Thesaurus
stark
Synonyms and Antonyms of stark
- stark and forbidding mountains that the settlers knew that they would have to cross
bleak, cold, hostile, inhospitable, inimical, unfriendly, unsympathetic
adamant, bound, determined, firm, intent, purposeful, resolute, resolved, steadfast, unflinching
fixed, hard, hardened, hardheaded, immovable, implacable, inflexible, ironhanded, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, rigid, self-willed, set, stiff, stubborn, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding, willful (or wilful)
black, cheerless, dark, gloomy, glum, joyless, melancholic, moody, morose, sulky, sullen, surly
brooding, grave, humorless, melancholy, serious, sober, sobersided, solemn, somber (or sombre), staid, unsmiling, weighty
- the schoolʼs stark prohibition against obscene slogans on clothing
absolute, all-out, arrant, blank, blooming [chiefly British], bodacious [Southern & Midland], categorical (also categoric), clean, complete, consummate, cotton-picking, 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
- house buyers trying to imagine what those stark rooms would look like when filled with furniture
- a once-lush landscape rendered depressingly stark by strip-mining and deforestation
barren, bony (also boney), dead, desolate, hardscrabble, impoverished, infertile, poor, unfertile, unproductive, waste
- monks who have committed themselves to living in stark cells and working and praying in silence
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