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101severity — n 1. harshness, rigor, rigorousness, stringency, asperity, strictness, roughness, extremity; inflexibility, unbendingness, unyieldingness, obdurateness, flintiness; persistence, unremittance, inexorability, implacability, relentlessness;… …
102simplicity — n 1. clearness, lucidity, limpidity; perceptibility, distinctness, obviousness, explicitness, con spicuousness, salience, unmistakableness; clarity, cog nizability, intelligibility, penetrability, decipherability, legibility. 2. plainness,… …
103squalor — n misery, miserableness, poverty, wretchedness, squalidness, squalidity; sordidness, abjectness, abjection, slumminess, starkness; filth, dirt, foulness, vileness, fulsomeness, feculence, scumminess, muckiness, sliminess, smuttiness, grunginess,… …
104stark — UK [stɑː(r)k] / US [stɑrk] adjective [usually before noun] Word forms stark : adjective stark comparative starker superlative starkest 1) used for describing a building or scene that is very clear and plain to look at, often in a slightly… …
105stark — /stak / (say stahk) adjective 1. sheer, utter, downright, or arrant: stark lunacy. 2. absolutely naked. 3. stiff or rigid in substance, muscles, etc. 4. rigid in death. 5. harsh, grim, or desolate: *She saw it with the stark, mad clarity which… …
106austerity — [n1] severity acerbity, asperity, astringence, coldness, exactingness, exactness, formality, formalness, gravity, grimness, hardness, harshness, inclemency, inflexibility, obduracy, rigidity, rigor, seriousness, solemnity, sternness, stiffness,… …
107bareness — [n] state of being unclothed dishabille, nakedness, nudity, starkness, unadornment, undress; concept 453 Ant. clothed …
108starch — ► NOUN 1) an odourless, tasteless carbohydrate which is obtained chiefly from cereals and potatoes and is an important constituent of the human diet. 2) powder or spray made from this substance, used to stiffen fabric. 3) stiffness of manner. ►… …
109stark — ► ADJECTIVE 1) severe or bare in appearance. 2) unpleasantly or sharply clear. 3) complete; sheer: stark terror. ● stark naked Cf. ↑stark naked ● stark raving (or staring) mad Cf. ↑ …
110starkly — stark ► ADJECTIVE 1) severe or bare in appearance. 2) unpleasantly or sharply clear. 3) complete; sheer: stark terror. ● stark naked Cf. ↑stark naked ● stark raving (or staring) mad Cf. ↑ …
