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stark
1[ stahrk ]
adjective
- sheer, utter, downright, or complete:
This plan is stark madness!
- harsh, grim, or desolate, as a view, place, etc.:
Her photos capture the stark desert landscape.
- extremely simple or severe:
With its stark interior and rough ride, the car scores low in our luxury car ranking.
- bluntly or sternly plain; not softened or glamorized:
He panicked suddenly at the stark reality of the approaching deadline.
- distinct, sharp, or vivid:
The thriving community gardens stood in stark contrast to vacant land and abandoned buildings.
- stiff or rigid in substance, muscles, etc.
- rigid in death.
- Archaic. strong; powerful; massive or robust.
adverb
- utterly, absolutely, or quite:
stark mad.
- Chiefly Scot. and North England. in a stark manner; stoutly or vigorously.
Stark
2[ stahrk; German shtahrk ]
noun
- Harold Rayns·ford [reynz, -ferd], 1880–1972, U.S. admiral.
- Jo·han·nes [yoh-, hah, -n, uh, s], 1874–1957, German physicist: Nobel Prize 1919.
- John, 1728–1822, American Revolutionary War general.
Stark
1noun
- stɑːk StarkFreya (Madeline), Dame18931993FBritishTRAVEL AND EXPLORATION: travellerWRITING: writer 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)
- ʃtark StarkJohannes18741957MGermanSCIENCE: physicist 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
stark
2/ stɑːk /
adjective
- usually prenominal devoid of any elaboration; blunt
the stark facts
- grim; desolate
a stark landscape
- usually prenominal utter; absolute
stark folly
- archaic.severe; violent
- archaic.rigid, as in death (esp in the phrases stiff and stark, stark dead )
- short for stark-naked
adverb
- completely
stark mad
Derived Forms
- ˈstarkness, noun
- ˈstarkly, adverb
Other Words From
- stark·ly adverb
- stark·ness noun
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of stark1
Example Sentences
Here we have the most stark imperative for a deal to be done with LIV's Saudi backers.
Yet the stark metaphysical truths of these plays are inseparable from their brutal South African context.
It was overcast and grey and not particularly warm for a summer's night, in stark contrast to the blue skies and sunshine of the previous day.
The stark reality now is Wales have now joined Italy as another tier-one team to have lost 16 successive internationals in the professional era.
A new Bollywood film - Mrs - has once again laid bare a stark reality: even in well-educated households in India a woman's role is often confined to unpaid domestic work.
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