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adjective
1.
sheer, utter, downright, or complete: stark madness.
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harsh, grim, or desolate, as a view, place, etc.: a stark landscape.
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extremely simple or severe: a stark interior.
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bluntly or sternly plain; not softened or glamorized: the stark reality of the schedule's deadline.
5.
EXPANDstiff or rigid in substance, muscles, etc.
adverb
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utterly, absolutely, or quite: stark mad.
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Chiefly Scot. and North England. in a stark manner; stoutly or vigorously.
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| stark (stɑːk) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | (usually prenominal) devoid of any elaboration; blunt: the stark facts |
| 2. | grim; desolate: a stark landscape |
| 3. | (usually prenominal) utter; absolute: stark folly |
| 4. | archaic severe; violent |
| 5. | archaic, poetic or rigid, as in death (esp in the phrases stiff and stark, stark dead) |
| 6. | short for stark-naked |
| —adv | |
| 7. | completely: stark mad |
| [Old English stearc stiff; related to Old Norse sterkr, Gothic gastaurknan to stiffen] | |
| 'starkly | |
| —adv | |
| 'starkness | |
| —n | |
| Stark | |
| —n | |
| 1. | Dame Freya (Madeline) (ˈfreɪə). 1893--1993, British traveller and writer, whose many books include The Southern Gates of Arabia (1936), Beyond Euphrates (1951), and The Journey's Echo (1963) |
| 2. | Johannes (joˈhanəs). 1874--1957, German physicist, who discovered the splitting of the lines of a spectrum when the source of light is subjected to a strong electrostatic field (Stark effect, 1913): Nobel prize for physics 1919 |
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Word Origin & History
stark
O.E. stearc "stiff, strong" (related to starian "to stare"), from P.Gmc. *starkaz (cf. O.N. sterkr, O.Fris. sterk, M.Du. starc, O.H.G. starah, Ger. stark, Goth. *starks), from PIE base *ster- "stiff, rigid" (see stare). Meaning "utter, sheer, complete" first recorded c.1400,
EXPANDperhaps from infl. of common phrase stark dead (late 14c.), with stark mistaken as an intensive adj. Sense of "bare, barren" is from 1833. Stark naked (1520s) is from M.E. start naked (early 13c.), from O.E. steort "tail, rump." Hence Brit. slang starkers "naked" (1923).
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