stark

adj

1. sheer, utter, downright, absolute, unqualified, unmitigated, arrant, thorough, pure, perfect; complete, entire, out-and-out, outright, total, veritable, unconditional; rank, gross, glaring, flagrant, conspicuous; clear, evident, patent, unmistakable, obvious, plain; mere.

2. harsh, grim, dreary, drear, gray; desolate, barren, bare, vacant, abandoned, empty; arid, desert; wasted, laid waste, ravaged, destroyed; exhausted, depleted, worn, unfertile.

3. simple, severe, austere, spartan, puritanical, ascetic; unadorned, undecorated, unfurnished, unfur-bished.

4. stiff, rigid, hard, inflexible, nonflexible, unbendable, unbending, inelastic, unplastic, nonpliant, unpliable, unmalleable; tight, tense, taut, Inf. stiff as a poker, Inf. stiff as a ramod; cold, dead, Inf. stiff as a board, petrified, ossified.

adv

5. utterly, absolutely, downright, out-and-out, outright, all-out, straight-out; through and through, backward and forward, Sl. all the way, to the nth degree, grossly, quite; completely, entirely, wholly, totally, thoroughly, fully, altogether; unqualifiedly, unconditionally, unreservedly, unequivocally, unambiguously, clearly and simply, plain, plainly; clearly, obviously, evidently.