STARK

blunt, crude, stark

(adjective) devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment; “the blunt truth”; “the crude facts”; “facing the stark reality of the deadline”

bare, barren, bleak, desolate, stark

(adjective) providing no shelter or sustenance; “bare rocky hills”; “barren lands”; “the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes”; “the desolate surface of the moon”; “a stark landscape”

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; “an arrant fool”; “a complete coward”; “a consummate fool”; “a double-dyed villain”; “gross negligence”; “a perfect idiot”; “pure folly”; “what a sodding mess”; “stark staring mad”; “a thorough nuisance”; “a thoroughgoing villain”; “utter nonsense”; “the unadulterated truth”

stark

(adjective) complete or extreme; “stark poverty”; “a stark contrast”

austere, severe, stark, stern

(adjective) severely simple; “a stark interior”

stark

(adverb) completely; “stark mad”; “mouth stark open”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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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

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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. stærk, Icel. sterkr, Goth. gastaúrknan to become dried up, Lith. strëgti 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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