| Pronunciation: | | stârk
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- [adv] completely; "stark mad"; "mouth stark open"
- [adj] 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"
- [adj] complete or extreme; "stark poverty"; "a stark contrast"
- [adj] severely simple; "a stark interior"
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| | Synonyms: | | austere, bare, barren, bleak, desolate, immoderate, inhospitable, plain, severe |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Stark\, a. [Compar. {Starker}; superl. {Starkest}.] [OE.
stark stiff, strong, AS. stearc; akin to OS. starc strong, D.
sterk, OHG. starc, starah, G. & Sw. stark, Dan. st[ae]rk,
Icel. sterkr, Goth. gasta['u]rknan to become dried up, Lith.
str["e]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.
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.
To stiffen. [R.]
If horror have not starked your limbs. --H. Taylor.
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