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Stark
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What's The Definition Of Stark?
[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" Synonyms | Synonyms for Stark: austere | bare | barren | bleak | desolate | immoderate | inhospitable | plain | severe Related Terms | Find terms related to Stark: See Also | Stark In Webster's Dictionary \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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