Main entry: stark, blunt, crude
Definition: devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment
Usage: the blunt truth; the crude facts; facing the stark reality of the deadline
Main entry: desolate, bleak, bare, barren, stark
Definition: providing no shelter or sustenance
Usage: bare rocky hills; barren lands; the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes; the desolate surface of the moon; a stark landscape
Main entry: unadulterated, thoroughgoing, staring, stark, sodding, utter, complete, everlasting, perfect, arrant, pure, gross, consummate, double-dyed
Definition: without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
Usage: 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
Main entry: stark
Definition: complete or extreme
Usage: stark poverty; a stark contrast
Main entry: stern, austere, stark, severe
Definition: severely simple
Usage: a stark interior
Main entry: stark
Definition: completely
Usage: stark mad; mouth stark open