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STARK
blunt, crude, stark
(adjective) devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment; āthe blunt truthā; āthe crude factsā; āfacing the stark reality of the deadlineā
bare, barren, bleak, desolate, stark
(adjective) providing no shelter or sustenance; ābare rocky hillsā; ābarren landsā; āthe bleak treeless regions of the high Andesā; āthe desolate surface of the moonā; āa stark landscapeā
complete, arrant(a), consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, stark, staring, thorough, thoroughgoing, utter, unadulterated
(adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers; āan arrant foolā; āa complete cowardā; āa consummate foolā; āa double-dyed villainā; āgross negligenceā; āa perfect idiotā; āpure follyā; āwhat a sodding messā; āstark staring madā; āa thorough nuisanceā; āa thoroughgoing villainā; āutter nonsenseā; āthe unadulterated truthā
stark
(adjective) complete or extreme; āstark povertyā; āa stark contrastā
austere, severe, stark, stern
(adjective) severely simple; āa stark interiorā
stark
(adverb) completely; āstark madā; āmouth stark openā
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Adjective
stark (comparative starker, superlative starkest)
(obsolete) Hard, firm; obdurate.
Severe; violent; fierce (now usually in describing the weather).
(archaic) Strong; vigorous; powerful.
Stiff, rigid.
Hard in appearance; barren, desolate.
Complete, absolute, full.
Adverb
stark (not comparable)
starkly; entirely, absolutely
Usage notes
In standard modern English, the adverb is essentially restricted to stark naked and phrases meaning "crazy" on the pattern of stark raving mad.
Etymology 2
Verb
stark (third-person singular simple present starks, present participle starking, simple past and past participle starked)
(obsolete or dialect) To stiffen.
Anagrams
• Karst, Trask, karst, karts, skart
Proper noun
Stark (plural Starks)
A surname.
An unincorporated community in Butts County, Georgia.
An unincorporated community in Stark County, Illinois.
A tiny city in Neosho County, Kansas.
An unincorporated community in Elliott County, Kentucky.
An unincorporated community in Pike County, Missouri.
A small town in Coos County, New Hampshire.
A small town in Herkimer County, New York.
An unincorporated community in Boone County, West Virginia.
A small town in Vernon County, Wisconsin.
Noun
Stark (uncountable)
(fiction) The language spoken in the Ender's Game series, which is nearly identical to American English.
Anagrams
• Karst, Trask, karst, karts, skart
Source: Wiktionary
Stark, a. [Compar. Starker; superl. Starkest.] Etym: [OE. stark stiff, strong, AS. stearc; akin to OS. starc strong, D. sterk, OHG. starc, starah, G. & Sw. stark, Dan. stƦrk, Icel. sterkr, Goth. gastaĆŗrknan to become dried up, Lith. strĆ«gti to stiffen, to freeze. Cf. Starch, a. & n.]
1. Stiff; rigid. Chaucer. Whose senses all were straight benumbed and stark. Spenser. His heart gan wax as stark as marble stone. Spenser. Many a nobleman lies stark and stiff Under the hoofs of vaunting enemies. Shak. The north is not so stark and cold. B. Jonson.
2. Complete; absolute; full; perfect; entire. [Obs.] Consider the stark security The common wealth is in now. B. Jonson.
3. Strong; vigorous; powerful. A stark, moss-trooping Scot. Sir W. Scott. Stark beer, boy, stout and strong beer. Beau. & Fl.
4. Severe; violent; fierce. [Obs.] "In starke stours." [i. e., in fierce combats]. Chaucer.
5. Mere; sheer; gross; entire; downright. He pronounces the citation stark nonsense. Collier. Rhetoric is very good or stark naught; there's no medium in rhetoric. Selden.
Stark, adv.
Definition: Wholly; entirely; absolutely; quite; as, stark mind. Shak. Held him strangled in his arms till he was stark dead. Fuller. Stark naked, wholly naked; quite bare. Strip your sword stark naked. Shak.
Note: According to Professor Skeat, "stark-naked" is derived from steort-naked, or start-naked, literally tail-naked, and hence wholly naked. If this etymology be true the preferable form is stark-naked.
Stark, v. t.
Definition: To stiffen. [R.] If horror have not starked your limbs. H. Taylor.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., āthe father of the brideā instead of āthe brideās fatherā
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