| adjective | devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment “the blunt truth” |
| adjective | severely simple “a stark interior” |
| adjective | complete or extreme “stark poverty” |
| adjective | without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers “an arrant fool” |
| adjective | providing no shelter or sustenance “bare rocky hills” |
| adverb | completely “stark mad” |
| starkness | noun | the quality of being complete or utter or extreme |
| austereness | noun | extreme plainness |
| severeness | noun | extreme plainness |
| sternness | noun | the quality (as of scenery) being grim and gloomy and forbidding |
| bareness | noun | an extreme lack of furnishings or ornamentation |
| barren | noun | an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation |
| barrenness | noun | the quality of yielding nothing of value |
| bleakness | noun | a bleak and desolate atmosphere |