[syn: bare, barren, bleak, desolate, stark]
ADVERB (1)
1. completely;
- Example: "stark mad"
- Example: "mouth stark open"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Stark \Stark\ (st[aum]rk), adv.
Wholly; entirely; absolutely; quite; as, stark mad. --Shak.
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Held him strangled in his arms till he was stark dead.
--Fuller.
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Stark naked, wholly naked; quite bare.
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Strip your sword stark naked. --Shak.
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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.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Stark \Stark\ (st[aum]rk), a. [Compar. Starker (-[~e]r);
superl. Starkest.] [OE. stark stiff, strong, AS. stearc;
akin to OS. starc strong, D. sterk, OHG. starc, starah, G. &
Sw. stark, Dan. staerk, 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.
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Whose senses all were straight benumbed and stark.
--Spenser.
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His heart gan wax as stark as marble stone.
--Spenser.
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Many a nobleman lies stark and stiff
Under the hoofs of vaunting enemies. --Shak.
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The north is not so stark and cold. --B. Jonson.
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2. Complete; absolute; full; perfect; entire. [Obs.]
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Consider the stark security
The common wealth is in now. --B. Jonson.
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3. Strong; vigorous; powerful.
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A stark, moss-trooping Scot. --Sir W.
Scott.
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Stark beer, boy, stout and strong beer. --Beau. &
Fl.
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4. Severe; violent; fierce. [Obs.] "In starke stours" [i. e.,
in fierce combats]. --Chaucer.
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5. Mere; sheer; gross; entire; downright.
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He pronounces the citation stark nonsense.
--Collier.
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Rhetoric is very good or stark naught; there's no
medium in rhetoric. --Selden.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Stark \Stark\, v. t.
To stiffen. [R.]
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If horror have not starked your limbs. --H. Taylor.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
stark
adv 1: completely; "stark mad"; "mouth stark open"
adj 1: devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment;
"the blunt truth"; "the crude facts"; "facing the stark
reality of the deadline" [syn: blunt, crude(a),
stark(a)]
2: severely simple; "a stark interior" [syn: austere,
severe, stark, stern]
3: complete or extreme; "stark poverty"; "a stark contrast"
4: 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 thoroughgoing villain"; "utter
nonsense"; "the unadulterated truth" [syn: arrant(a),
complete(a), consummate(a), double-dyed(a),
everlasting(a), gross(a), perfect(a), pure(a),
sodding(a), stark(a), staring(a), thoroughgoing(a),
utter(a), unadulterated]
5: 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" [syn: bare, barren, bleak, desolate,
stark]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
159 Moby Thesaurus words for "stark":
Spartan, absolute, absolutely, altogether, arrant, ascetic,
austere, bald, bare, barren, basic, blasted, bleak, blessed, blunt,
candid, chaste, classical, clean, clear, clearly, cold, common,
commonplace, complete, completely, confounded, consummate, crass,
decided, definitive, depressing, desolate, direct, downright,
drear, dreary, dry, dull, egregious, elementary, empty, entirely,
essential, evident, flagrant, frank, fully, fundamental, glaring,
grey, grim, gross, hard, harsh, homely, homespun, homogeneous,
indivisible, infernal, inornate, intolerable, irreducible,
irretrievably, irrevocably, lean, matter-of-fact, mere, monolithic,
naked, natural, neat, nude, obvious, obviously, of a piece, open,
out-and-out, outright, patent, perfect, perfectly, plain,
plain-speaking, plain-spoken, plainly, plumb, positive, primary,
profound, pronounced, proper, prosaic, prosing, prosy, pure,
pure and simple, quite, rank, ravaged, raw, regular, right, rustic,
severe, shattering, sheer, shocking, simon-pure, simple,
simple-speaking, single, sober, spare, spooky, stark-naked,
stark-staring, straightforward, stripped, superlative, surpassing,
the veriest, thorough, thoroughgoing, total, totally, unadorned,
unaffected, unbearable, unclad, unclothed, uncluttered,
unconditional, unconscionable, undeniable, undifferenced,
undifferentiated, unelaborate, unembellished, unenhanced,
unequivocal, unfancy, unfussy, uniform, unimaginative, unmitigated,
unornate, unpoetical, unqualified, unrelieved, unrelievedly,
unspoiled, unvarnished, utter, utterly, vacant, vacuous, void,
wholly
U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000):
Stark -- U.S. County in Illinois
Population (2000): 6332
Housing Units (2000): 2725
Land area (2000): 287.937834 sq. miles (745.755535 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.275745 sq. miles (0.714176 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 288.213579 sq. miles (746.469711 sq. km)
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 41.097764 N, 89.802300 W
Headwords:
Stark
Stark, IL
Stark County
Stark County, IL
U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000):
Stark -- U.S. County in Ohio
Population (2000): 378098
Housing Units (2000): 157024
Land area (2000): 576.136229 sq. miles (1492.185919 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 4.773125 sq. miles (12.362336 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 580.909354 sq. miles (1504.548255 sq. km)
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 40.819408 N, 81.383599 W
Headwords:
Stark
Stark, OH
Stark County
Stark County, OH
U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000):
Stark -- U.S. County in North Dakota
Population (2000): 22636
Housing Units (2000): 9722
Land area (2000): 1338.162493 sq. miles (3465.824800 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 2.300379 sq. miles (5.957955 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1340.462872 sq. miles (3471.782755 sq. km)
Located within: North Dakota (ND), FIPS 38
Location: 46.852248 N, 102.712489 W
Headwords:
Stark
Stark, ND
Stark County
Stark County, ND
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):
Stark, KS -- U.S. city in Kansas
Population (2000): 106
Housing Units (2000): 47
Land area (2000): 0.174053 sq. miles (0.450794 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.174053 sq. miles (0.450794 sq. km)
FIPS code: 68025
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 37.689592 N, 95.143573 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 66775
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Stark, KS
Stark