Sekirov Dictionary

stark

UK /stɑːk/US /stɑɹk/

adjective 7
adverb 1
verb 1
forms 5

adjective7

•
Plain in appearance; barren, desolate.
- I picked my way forlornly through the stark, sharp rocks.
•
complete and total, with nothing making it any less
- I screamed in stark terror.
- A flower was growing, in stark contrast, out of the sidewalk.
Naked.
Severe; violent; fierce (now usually in describing the weather).
•
Stiff, rigid.
- His heauie head, deuoide of carefull carke, / Whose sences all were straight benumbd and starke. — 1590
(no longer used) Hard, firm; obdurate.
•
(literary, no longer used) Strong; vigorous; powerful.
- Stark beer, boy, stout and strong beer. — 1622

adverb1

•
Starkly; entirely, absolutely.
- He's gone stark, staring mad.
- She was just standing there, stark naked.

verb1

(dialect, no longer used) To stiffen.

forms

starked · starking · starks · starker · starkest

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