Empty
Empty adjective - Lacking contents that could or should be present.
Usage example: the refrigerator is empty, so we'll have to eat out
Stark is a synonym for empty in containing nothing topic. In some cases you can use "Stark" instead an adjective "Empty".
Stark
Stark adjective - Lacking contents that could or should be present.
Usage example: house buyers trying to imagine what those stark rooms would look like when filled with furniture
Empty is a synonym for stark in bare topic. Sometimes you can use "Empty" instead an adjective "Stark", if it concerns topics such as desolate.
Nearby Word: starkly
Both words in one sentence
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Naked People Are Funny: The whole sequence in Dark of the Moon in which Jame escapes the bad guys stark naked and comes across Graykin and then Lyra in the empty palace of Karkinaroth.
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Adventure Time has "No One Can Hear You", when Finn is knocked unconscious and wakes up to a completely empty Candy Kingdom, save for a stark-raving mad Jake.
Source: Slept Through the Apocalypse -
It initially appears to be a gender inversion of this trope when Ser Loras Tyrell gives Sansa Stark a red rose before his joust, but it turns out to be an empty gesture.
Source: The Lady's Favour
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