starkness
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
the quality of being complete or utter or extreme
the starkness of his contrast between justice and fairness was open to many objections
Types & categories
- limit hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 noun
an extreme lack of furnishings or ornamentation
I was struck by the starkness of my father's room
Types & categories
- plainness hypernym
Related & opposite
- stripped derivation
- barren derivation
- bare derivation
- unfinished derivation
- austere derivation
- unsheathed derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | crudea |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | stark |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | limit |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | stripped |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | barren |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | bare |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | unfinished |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | austere |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | unsheathed |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | plainness |