stark

Adjective

• providing no shelter or sustenance
  • bare rocky hills
    
  • barren lands
    
  • the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes
    
  • the desolate surface of the moon
    
  • a stark landscape
    

• without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
  • 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
    

• complete or extreme
  • stark poverty
    
  • a stark contrast
    

• severely simple
  • a stark interior
    

• devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment
  • the blunt truth
    
  • the crude facts
    
  • facing the stark reality of the deadline
    

Adverb

• completely
  • stark mad
    
  • mouth stark open
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  bare , barren , bleak , desolate , austere , severe , stern , blunt , crude(a) , stark(a)