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Starkness

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Noun

1. absoluteness, starkness, utterness

the quality of being complete or utter or extreme

Example Sentences:
'the starkness of his contrast between justice and fairness was open to many objections'

2. bareness, starkness

an extreme lack of furnishings or ornamentation

Example Sentences:
'I was struck by the starkness of my father's room'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Starkness

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adjective
1. (usually prenominal)
devoid of any elaboration; blunt
the stark facts
2. 
grim; desolate
a stark landscape
3. (usually prenominal)
utter; absolute
stark folly
4. archaic
severe; violent
5. archaic or poetic
rigid, as in death (esp in the phrase stiff and stark)
6.  short for stark-naked
adverb
7. 
completely
stark mad
stark dead
noun
1. (stɑːk )
Dame Freya (Madeline) (ˈfreɪə). 1893–1993, British traveller and writer, whose many books include The Southern Gates of Arabia (1936), Beyond Euphrates (1951), and The Journey's Echo (1963)
2. (German ʃtark)
Johannes (joˈhanəs). 1874–1957, German physicist, who discovered the splitting of the lines of a spectrum when the source of light is subjected to a strong electrostatic field (Stark effect, 1913): Nobel prize for physics 1919

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Starkness

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adjective
1. 
a. 
stiff or rigid, as a corpse
b. 
rigorous; harsh; severe
stark discipline
2. 
sharply outlined or prominent
one stark tree
3. 
bleak; desolate; barren
stark wasteland
4. 
a. 
emptied; stripped
stark shelves
b. 
totally naked; bare
5. 
grimly blunt; unsoftened, unembellished, etc.
stark realism
6. 
sheer; utter; downright; unrelieved
stark terror
7.  Archaic
strong; powerful
adverb
8. 
in a stark manner; esp., utterly; wholly
stark mad

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Starkness

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adj. stark·er, stark·est
1. Clearly distinguished or delineated: a stark contrast.
2.
a. Bare, desolate, or unadorned: an apartment with stark white walls; the stark beauty of the desert landscape.
b. Severe or unmitigated; harsh or grim: "[They] found it hard to accept such a stark portrait of unrelieved failure" (W. Bruce Lincoln).
3. Complete or utter; extreme: stark disbelief.
adv.
Utterly; entirely: stark raving mad.

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