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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (5)

1. devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment;
- Example: "the blunt truth"
- Example: "the crude facts"
- Example: "facing the stark reality of the deadline"
[syn: blunt, crude(a), stark(a)]

2. severely simple;
- Example: "a stark interior"
[syn: austere, severe, stark, stern]

3. complete or extreme;
- Example: "stark poverty"
- Example: "a stark contrast"

4. without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers;
- Example: "an arrant fool"
- Example: "a complete coward"
- Example: "a consummate fool"
- Example: "a double-dyed villain"
- Example: "gross negligence"
- Example: "a perfect idiot"
- Example: "pure folly"
- Example: "what a sodding mess"
- Example: "stark staring mad"
- Example: "a thoroughgoing villain"
- Example: "utter nonsense"
- Example: "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;
- Example: "bare rocky hills"
- Example: "barren lands"
- Example: "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"
- Example: "the desolate surface of the moon"
- Example: "a stark landscape"
[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]