Tra từ stark - Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

I - adjective

1. devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment (Freq. 1)
- the blunt truth
- the crude facts
- facing the stark reality of the deadline
• Syn:
blunt, crude
• Similar to:
unconditional, unconditioned
• Derivationally related forms:
starkness
2. complete or extreme
- stark poverty
- a stark contrast
• Similar to:
immoderate
• Derivationally related forms:
starkness
3. 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
• Syn:
bare, barren, bleak, desolate
• Similar to:
inhospitable
• Derivationally related forms:
starkness, bleakness (for: bleak), barren (for: barren), barrenness (for: barren), bareness (for: bare)
4. severely simple
- a stark interior
• Syn:
austere, severe, stern
• Similar to:
plain
• Derivationally related forms:
sternness (for: stern), starkness, severeness (for: severe), austereness (for: austere)
5. 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
• Syn:
arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting,
gross, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, thoroughgoing,
utter, unadulterated
• Similar to:
unmitigated

II - adverb

completely
- stark mad
- mouth stark open