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How to pronounce stark in English?

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


stark staring mad.
Type Words
Synonyms bare, barren, bleak, desolate
Derivation starkness


a stark landscape.
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Synonyms blunt, crude
Derivation starkness


facing the stark reality of the deadline.
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Synonyms austere, severe, stern
Derivation starkness


a stark interior.
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Derivation starkness


stark poverty.
a stark contrast.

Examples of stark

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Each of them eyes soaring opportunities while confronting stark vulnerabilities.
From the businessweek.com
Yesterday's video, from another campaign appearance in Reno, is even more stark.
From the newsweek.com
Both women have seemed to relish the stark ideological differences between them.
From the latimes.com
With producer Tony Visconti, the oddly stark pop-stomper changed Bolan's career.
From the hecklerspray.com
Indeed, the company as a whole doesn't quite meet its stark, stentorian demands.
From the telegraph.co.uk
The problem is less stark in Britain, which sensibly stayed out of the eurozone.
From the nzherald.co.nz
Stark said the district expects its evaluation work to be completed this spring.
From the sacbee.com
This article points out the stark differences between Democrats and Republicans.
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All of this is in stark contrast to the approach of the previous administration.
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  • Completely; "stark mad"; "mouth stark open"
  • Blunt: devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment; "the blunt truth"; "the crude facts"; "facing the stark reality of the deadline"
  • Austere: severely simple; "a stark interior"
  • Arrant(a): 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"; " ...
  • Bare: 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"
  • (starkness) the quality of being complete or utter or extreme; "the starkness of his contrast between justice and fairness was open to many objections"
  • (starkness) bareness: an extreme lack of furnishings or ornamentation; "I was struck by the starkness of my father's room"
  • u0160tark (full legal name: Soko u0160tark d.o.o. Beograd, pronounced Shtark) is a food manufacturing company located in Belgrade, Serbia. The main products of the company include candies, biscuits and chocolates. It is one of the most stable companies in Serbia, and has lived through some very turbulent times when it comes to politics and economics...
  • Stark is a lunar crater on the far side of the Moon. It lies to the southeast of the prominent crater Tsiolkovskiy, and north of Subbotin.