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Stark

Stiff; rigid.

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Immoderate 84% connected

Not moderate; exceeding just or usual and suitable bounds; excessive; extravagant; unreasonable; as, immoderate demands; immoderate grief; immoderate…

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Immoderate 84% connected

Not moderate; exceeding just or usual and suitable bounds; excessive; extravagant; unreasonable; as, immoderate demands; immoderate grief; immoderate…

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Inhospitable 84% connected

Not hospitable; not disposed to show hospitality to strangers or guests; as, an inhospitable person or people.

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Inhospitable 84% connected

Not hospitable; not disposed to show hospitality to strangers or guests; as, an inhospitable person or people.

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Plain 84% connected

To lament; to bewail; to complain.

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Plain 84% connected

To lament; to bewail; to complain.

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Unconditional 84% connected

Not conditional limited, or conditioned; made without condition; absolute; unreserved; as, an unconditional surrender.

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Unconditional 84% connected

Not conditional limited, or conditioned; made without condition; absolute; unreserved; as, an unconditional surrender.

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Unconditioned 84% connected

Not conditioned or subject to conditions; unconditional.

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Unconditioned 84% connected

Not conditioned or subject to conditions; unconditional.

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Derivationally related 4

Absoluteness 74% connected

The quality of being absolute; independence of everything extraneous; unlimitedness; absolute power; independent reality; positiveness.

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Absoluteness 74% connected

The quality of being absolute; independence of everything extraneous; unlimitedness; absolute power; independent reality; positiveness.

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Starkness 74% connected

The quality or state of being stark.

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Starkness 74% connected

The quality or state of being stark.

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Synonym 23

Arrant 92% connected

Notoriously or preeminently bad; thorough or downright, in a bad sense; shameless; unmitigated; as, an arrant rogue or coward.

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Austere 92% connected

Sour and astringent; rough to the state; having acerbity; as, an austere crab apple; austere wine.

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Bare 92% connected

Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.

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Barren 92% connected

Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- said of women and female animals.

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Bleak 92% connected

Without color; pale; pallid.

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Blunt 92% connected

Having a thick edge or point, as an instrument; dull; not sharp.

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Complete 92% connected

Filled up; with no part or element lacking; free from deficiency; entire; perfect; consummate.

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Consummate 92% connected

Carried to the utmost extent or degree; of the highest quality; complete; perfect.

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Crude 92% connected

In its natural state; not cooked or prepared by fire or heat; undressed; not altered, refined, or prepared for use by any artificial process; raw; as…

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Desolate 92% connected

Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house.

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Double-dyed 92% connected

Dyed twice; thoroughly or intensely colored; hence; firmly fixed in opinions or habits; as, a double-dyed villain.

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Everlasting 92% connected

Lasting or enduring forever; exsisting or continuing without end; immoral; eternal.

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Gross 92% connected

Great; large; bulky; fat; of huge size; excessively large.

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Perfect 92% connected

Brought to consummation or completeness; completed; not defective nor redundant; having all the properties or qualities requisite to its nature and k…

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Pure 92% connected

Separate from all heterogeneous or extraneous matter; free from mixture or combination; clean; mere; simple; unmixed; as, pure water; pure clay; pure…

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Severe 92% connected

Serious in feeeling or manner; sedate; grave; austere; not light, lively, or cheerful.

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Sodding 92% connected

of Sod

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staring 92% connected

of Stare

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Stern 92% connected

The black tern.

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Thorough 92% connected

Through.

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Thoroughgoing 92% connected

Going through, or to the end or bottom; very thorough; complete.

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Unadulterated 92% connected

Not adulterated; pure.

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Utter 92% connected

Outer.

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