starkadjective
uk/stɑːk/us/stɑːrk/empty, simple, or obvious, especially without decoration or anything that is not necessary:
It was a stark room with a bed and chair as the only furniture.
The stark reality is that we are operating at a huge loss.
In the suburbs the spacious houses stand in stark (= extreme) contrast to the slums of the city's poor.
Synonym
severe
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Apparent and obvious
- apparent
- be (as) plain as the nose on your face idiom
- be (right) under your nose idiom
- be etched somewhere idiom
- be writ large idiom
- leap out at sb
- linear
- loud
- loud and clear idiom
- manifest
- manifestly
- marked
- nose
- publicly
- recognizable
- self-evident
- shine
- shine out
- shine through
- stare
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Plain and ordinary
starkness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈstɑːk.nəs/us/ˈstɑːrk.nəs/
starkadverb
uk/stɑːk/us/stɑːrk/completely or extremely:
The children were splashing in the river, stark naked.
If I didn't exercise, I think I'd go raving mad (UK also stark staring mad) from sitting at a desk all day.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Linguistics: very & extreme
- abject
- awful
- badly
- beyond
- classic
- classical
- devastating
- drop dead! idiom
- eminently
- esp
- especially
- heartily
- impossibly
- perfect
- sheer
- specially
- supremely
- thoroughly
- whole
- wide
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