stark - Meaning in Konkani

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stark - Meaning in Konkani

stark Word Forms & Inflections

Definitions and Meaning of stark in English

stark adjective

1. devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment

   Synonyms

   blunt, blunt, crude

   Examples

   • "facing the stark reality of the deadline"
   • "the blunt truth"
   • "the crude facts"
2. providing no shelter or sustenance

   Synonyms

   bare, bare, barren, barren, bleak, desolate

   Examples

   • "a stark landscape"
   • "bare rocky hills"
   • "barren lands"
   • "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"
   • "the desolate surface of the moon"
3. without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers

   Synonyms

   arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, gross, perfect, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, thorough, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter, utter

   Examples

   • "a complete coward"
   • "a consummate fool"
   • "a double-dyed villain"
   • "a perfect idiot"
   • "a thorough nuisance"
   • "a thoroughgoing villain"
   • "an arrant fool"
   • "gross negligence"
   • "pure folly"
   • "stark staring mad"
   • "the unadulterated truth"
   • "utter nonsense"
   • "what a sodding mess"
4. complete or extreme

   Examples

   • "a stark contrast"
   • "stark poverty"
5. severely simple

   Synonyms

   austere, severe, stern, stern

   Example

   • "a stark interior"

stark abverb

1. completely

   Examples

   • "mouth stark open"
   • "stark mad"

Synonyms of stark

• blunt, crude
• bare, barren, bleak, desolate
• arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter
• austere, severe, stern

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