stark English

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stark Adjective

— Is something is stark, it is plain and undecorated, often in a cold or unpleasant way. All the leaves were gone now, leaving the tree stark and bare. The house was bare and empty with stark, white walls.

— A stark contrast, difference, reminder, etc. is simple and clear, often in a cold or unpleasant way. The contrast between rich and poor is even more stark in health outcomes. The deaths are a stark reminder of how much family violence there is in the city.

stark

— adjective (= blunt, crude) 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

— adjective complete or extreme stark poverty a stark contrast

— adjective severely simple a stark interior

— adjective (= bare, barren, bleak, desolate) 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

— adjective (= arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, thoroughgoing, utter, unadulterated) 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

Synonyms stark synonyms

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stark English » English

bare

stern

severe

perfect

naked

hard

complete

barren

austere

quite

pure

harsh

desolate

crude

blunt

absolute

unadulterated

thoroughgoing

thorough

staring

sheer

sharp

outright

nude

full

consummate

bleak

arrant

wholly

whole

waste

utterly

utter

undressed

tough

sublimely

strict

straight-out

stiff

sodding

gross

grim

gaunt

fully

everlasting

entirely

dreary

double-dyed

deserted

desert

Topics stark topics

What do people use stark to talk about?

Social behavior Behavior Polite

Crazy

• What words refer to being crazy?
  be nuts be crackers need your head examined be out of your mind be off your rocker be stark raving mad be out to lunch

Examples stark examples

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Simple sentences

Tom is stark naked.

He's stark crazy.

He's stark naked.

She's stark naked.

Movie subtitles

With stark indifference, Muffat is struck by a final twist of fate.

Stark terror!

But if any more of your citizens are found stark and cold. just remember, nephew warned you.

In a sense, yes. lt was a novel. I was 22 at the time. lt was very, very stark.

You know that people don't want to see the stark face of truth.

The poor child's gone stark staring mad.

Stark raving mad.

Stark realism.

Jack, ever hear of a fellow called Willie Stark?

Willie Stark.

And now you, Mrs. Stark.

When did they fire you, Mrs. Stark?

The last of the Willie Stark articles.

I read your articles about Willie Stark.

Stark lines over your shoulders must be antennae.

He's stark mad.

She played a fairy and entered, quite unexpectedly, stark naked.

I've heard of them driving buffalo and native cattle stark-staring mad, so they just run and run till they fall down dead.

Fulton, have you gone stark raving out of your mind?!

You must be stark raving mad.

He's stark mad!

Jim Stark?

He's a minor, Mr. Stark. and it looks to me like he had more than a little drink.

Stark. Jim Stark.

My name's Stark. Eric Stark.

The good Madame Daughter has gone stark raving mad.

Stark realism. The problems that confront the average man.

Just because you're stark naked!

Stark, staring mad.

Hello, Stark.

Did you ever hearof a soldier named Stark?

Maylon Stark?

No, thanks, Mr. Stark.

Jim Stark.

Mr. Stark!

So I got myself all decked out in my highest heels and my lowest cut dress. and I walked down to that supper table. and those boys looked at me as if I was stark naked.

News and current affairs

NEW YORK - Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism, the world is facing another stark choice between two fundamentally different forms of organization: international capitalism and state capitalism.

So stark are conditions now that the very survival of the nation is at stake.

It is especially ironic that, in stark contrast to his own rhetoric, Bush's call for a Middle East peace conference is a call to wage war against the party, Hamas, that won a democratic election, and to make peace with the loser, Fatah.

The erosion in public support for Bush's Iraq policy is stark.

The simple fact is that humanity faces a stark choice.

The compromises necessary for peace are likely to lead to a stark political confrontation in Israel as well.

But the stark reality is that Earth Hour teaches all the wrong lessons, and actually increases CO2 emissions.

The most recent report by the Independent Monitoring Board of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, released in November 2012, acknowledged Pakistan's recent progress - in stark contrast to the bleak outlook of its previous report.

Jean-Marie Le Pen's breakthrough in the French presidential elections is a slap in the face for mainstream French political parties, as well as a stark warning of the drawbacks of the constitution of the Fifth French Republic.

Recent developments in Russia, however, constitute a stark challenge to this understanding - which explains President Vladimir Putin's bold decision to support the US-led war on terrorism following the September 11 th attacks.

The fact is, however, that these fanatics are a modern phenomenon, a creation of the Muslim world's failed political systems, and a stark reminder of the price of long years of repression.

Outside Europe, the GM green revolution holds more stark implications.

Meanwhile, in the stark North Korean countryside, the regime has invested almost nothing.

Both events provide stark lessons about risks, and about how badly markets and societies can manage them.

Rather, the stubborn complexities of the situation are reduced to a stark struggle between absolute power and absolute powerlessness, the archetypal oppressor and archetypal oppressed.

The electoral math is stark.

The cost of maintaining internal order will continue to rise as the system's fundamental defects force the new leader to confront stark new challenges.

The problem for Ban is his diffident manner, which stands in stark contrast with that of his predecessor, Kofi Annan, a larger than life secretary-general who dominated the scene through his flair, eloquence, and star power.

The facts are hard to dispute; indeed, the historical record is now so stark that diehard Republicans are probably starting to wonder if there is a curse.

Generally speaking, China's reform period has been a stark contemporary illustration of the historical lesson that unleashing individual initiative tends to boost economic development.

It throws a stark light on the flaws of capitalism's core institutions.

The stark reality is that the best-organized groups are the jihadists: the Islamic State, Jabhat al-Nusra, and the Islamic Front.

But the disease's sudden appearance on the global scene serves as a stark reminder of what can happen if we do not remain vigilant.

But a solution need not require a stark choice between prohibition and legalization.

The site offers a stark reminder that humans' simple, physical presence in a habitat is more damaging than one of the twentieth century's worst environmental catastrophes.

But the stark reality of today's world is that you can tell the rich from the poor by their Internet connections.

As a group of eminent European politicians recently noted, a two-state peace deal could be lost, leaving Israel to face a stark choice: become a non-Jewish democracy or a Jewish non-democracy.

But the euphoria that came with the end of the Musharraf era is wearing off, as the new government faces stark choices.