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Synonyms of the word 
STARK → ARRANT - AUSTERE - BARE - BARREN - BLEAK - BLUNT - COMPLETE - CONSUMMATE - CRUDE - DESOLATE - DOUBLE-DYED - EVERLASTING - GROSS - IMMODERATE - INHOSPITABLE - PERFECT - PLAIN - PURE - SEVERE - SODDING - STARING - STERN - THOROUGHGOING - UNADULTERATED - UNCONDITIONAL - UNMITIGATED - UTTERstark- adj. (obsolete) Hard, firm; obdurate.
- adj. Severe; violent; fierce (now usually in describing the weather).
- adj. (rare) Strong; vigorous; powerful.
- adj. Stiff, rigid.
- adj. Hard in appearance; barren, desolate.
- adj. Complete, absolute, full.
- adv. starkly; entirely, absolutely.
- v. (obsolete or dialect) To stiffen.
arrant- adj. Utter; complete.
- adj. Alternative spelling of errant.
austere- adj. Grim or severe in manner or appearance.
- adj. Lacking trivial decoration; not extravagant or gaudy.
bare- adj. Minimal; that is or are just sufficient.
- adj. Naked, uncovered.
- adj. Having no supplies.
- adj. Having no decoration.
- adj. Having had what usually covers (something) removed.
- adj. (Britain, slang, not comparable) A lot or lots of.
- adj. With head uncovered; bareheaded.
- adj. Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.
- adj. (figuratively) Mere; without embellishment.
- adj. Threadbare; much worn.
- adv. (Britain, slang) Very; significantly.
- adv. Barely.
- adv. Without a condom.
- n. (‘the bare’) the surface, the (bare) skin.
- n. Surface; body; substance.
- n. (architecture) That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.
- v. (transitive) To uncover; to reveal.
- v. (obsolete) simple past tense of bear.
barren- adj. (not comparable) Unable to bear children; sterile.
- adj. Of poor fertility, infertile; not producing vegetation.
- adj. Bleak.
- adj. Unproductive; fruitless; unprofitable; empty.
- adj. Mentally dull; stupid.
- n. An area of low fertility and habitation, a desolate place.
bleak- adj. Without color; pale; pallid.
- adj. Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.
- adj. Unhappy; cheerless; miserable; emotionally desolate.
- n. A small European river fish (Alburnus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae.
blunt- adj. Having a thick edge or point; not sharp.
- adj. Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.
- adj. Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
- adj. Hard to impress or penetrate.
- adj. Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive.
- n. A fencer's practice foil with a soft tip.
- n. A short needle with a strong point.
- n. (smoking) A marijuana cigar.
- n. (Britain, slang, archaic, uncountable) money.
- n. A playboating move resembling a cartwheel performed on a wave.
- v. To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
- v. (figuratively) To repress or weaken; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of.
complete- v. (transitive) To finish; to make done; to reach the end.
- v. (transitive) To make whole or entire.
- adj. With all parts included; with nothing missing; full.
- adj. Finished; ended; concluded; completed.
- adj. Generic intensifier.
- adj. (analysis, Of a metric space) in which every Cauchy sequence converges.
- adj. (algebra, Of a lattice) in which every set with a lower bound has a greatest lower bound.
- adj. (mathematics, Of a category) in which all small limits exist.
- adj. (logic, of a proof system of a formal system) With respect to a given semantics, that any well-formed…
- adj. (computing theory) With respect to a complexity class, used of a problem that is in that class and such…
consummate- adj. Complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.
- adj. Highly skilled and experienced; fully qualified.
- v. (transitive) To bring (a task, project, goal etc.) to completion; to accomplish.
- v. (transitive) To make perfect, achieve, give the finishing touch.
- v. (transitive) To make (a marriage) complete by engaging in first sexual intercourse.
- v. (intransitive) To become perfected, receive the finishing touch.
crude- adj. Being in a natural state.
- adj. Characterized by simplicity, especially something not carefully or expertly made.
- adj. Lacking concealing elements.
- adj. Lacking tact or taste.
- adj. (statistics) Being in an unanalyzed form.
- adj. (archaic) Immature or unripe.
- adj. (grammar) pertaining to the uninflected stem of a word.
- n. Any substance in its natural state.
- n. Crude oil.
desolate- adj. Deserted and devoid of inhabitants.
- adj. Barren and lifeless.
- adj. Made unfit for habitation or use; laid waste; neglected; destroyed.
- adj. Dismal or dreary.
- adj. Sad, forlorn and hopeless.
- v. To deprive of inhabitants.
- v. To devastate or lay waste somewhere.
- v. To abandon or forsake something. (Can we verify([fullurl:Wiktionary:Requests for verification/English…
- v. To make someone sad, forlorn and hopeless.
double-dyed- adj. Dyed twice; thoroughly or intensely coloured.
- adj. (figuratively) Firmly fixed in opinions or habits.
everlasting- adj. Lasting or enduring forever; existing or continuing without end; immortal; eternal.
- adj. Continuing indefinitely, or during a long period; perpetual; sometimes used, colloquially, as a strong…
- adj. (philosophy) Existing with infinite temporal duration (as opposed to existence outside of time).
- adv. (colloquial) Extremely.
- n. An everlasting flower.
- n. (historical) A durable cloth fabric for shoes, etc.
gross- adj. (slang) Disgusting, nasty.
- adj. Coarse, rude, vulgar, obscene, or impure.
- adj. Coarse, unrefined.
- adj. Great, large, bulky, or fat.
- adj. Great, serious, flagrant, or shameful.
- adj. The whole amount; entire; total before any deductions.
- adj. Not sensitive in perception or feeling; dull; witless.
- adj. (pathology) seen without a microscope, macroscopic, usually for a tissue or an organ.
- n. Twelve dozen = 144.
- n. The total nominal earnings or amount, before taxes, expenses, exceptions or similar are deducted. That…
- n. The bulk, the mass, the masses.
- v. To earn money, not including expenses.
immoderate- adj. Not moderate; excessive.
inhospitable- adj. (of a person) Not inclined to hospitality; unfriendly.
- adj. (of a place) Not offering shelter; barren or forbidding.
perfect- adj. Fitting its definition precisely.
- adj. Having all of its parts in harmony with a common purpose.
- adj. Without fault or mistake; thoroughly skilled or talented.
- adj. Excellent and delightful in all respects.
- adj. (grammar, of a tense or verb form) Representing a completed action.
- adj. (biology) Sexually mature and fully differentiated.
- adj. (botany) Of flowers, having both male (stamens) and female (carpels) parts.
- adj. (analysis) Of a set, that it is equal to its set of limit points, i.e. set A is perfect if A=A'.
- adj. (music) Describing an interval or any compound interval of a unison, octave, or fourths and fifths that…
- adj. (of a cocktail) Made with equal parts of sweet and dry vermouth.
- adj. (obsolete) Well informed; certain; sure.
- n. (grammar) The perfect tense, or a form in that tense.
- v. (transitive) To make perfect; to improve or hone.
- v. (law) To take an action, usually the filing of a document in the correct venue, that secures a legal right.
plain- adj. (now rare, regional) Flat, level.
- adj. Simple.
- adj. Obvious.
- adj. Open.
- adj. Not unusually beautiful; unattractive.
- adv. (colloquial) Simply.
- n. (rare, poetic) A lamentation.
- v. (reflexive, obsolete) To complain.
- v. (transitive, intransitive, now rare, poetic) To lament, bewail.
- n. An expanse of land with relatively low relief.
- n. A battlefield.
- n. (obsolete) A plane.
- v. (obsolete, transitive) To level; to raze; to make plain or even on the surface.
- v. (obsolete, transitive) To make plain or manifest; to explain.
pure- adj. Free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied.
- adj. Free of foreign material or pollutants.
- adj. Free of immoral behavior or qualities; clean.
- adj. (of a branch of science) Done for its own sake instead of serving another branch of science.
- adj. (phonetics) Of a single, simple sound or tone; said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants.
- adj. (of sound) Without harmonics or overtones; not harsh or discordant.
- adv. (Liverpudlian) to a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly.
- v. (golf) to hit (the ball) completely cleanly and accurately.
- n. Alternative form of puer.
severe- adj. Very bad or intense.
- adj. Strict or harsh.
- adj. Sober, plain in appearance, austere.
sodding- v. present participle of sod.
- adj. (Britain, mildly vulgar) An intensifier.
staring- v. present participle of stare.
- n. The act of one who stares.
stern- adj. Having a hardness and severity of nature or manner.
- adj. Grim and forbidding in appearance.
- n. (nautical) The rear part or after end of a ship or vessel.
- n. (figuratively) The post of management or direction.
- n. The hinder part of anything.
- n. The tail of an animal; now used only of the tail of a dog.
- n. A bird, the black tern.
thoroughgoing- adj. Complete; thorough; full; with great attention to detail.
unadulterated- adj. pure; not mixed or adulterated with anything.
- adj. utter or out-and-out, especially in the phrase unadulterated truth.
unconditional- adj. Absolute; without conditions, limitations, reservations or qualifications.
unmitigatedutter- adj. (now poetic, literary) Outer; furthest out, most remote.
- adj. (obsolete) Outward.
- adj. Absolute, unconditional, total, complete.
- v. (transitive) To say.
- v. (transitive) To use the voice.
- v. (transitive) To make speech sounds which may or may not have an actual language involved.
- v. (transitive) To make (a noise).
- v. (law, transitive) To put counterfeit money, etc., into circulation.
- adv. (obsolete) Further out; further away, outside.
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