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UK:^*^*UK and possibly other pronunciationsUK and possibly other pronunciations/ˈstɑː^rk/US:USA pronunciation: IPA and respellingUSA pronunciation: IPA/stɑrk/ ,USA pronunciation: respelling(stärk)

Inflections of 'stark' (adj):

starker: adj comparative

starkest: adj superlative

stark /stɑrk/USA pronunciation adj., -er, -est, adv.
adj.

complete, pure, sheer, downright:[before a noun]stark madness.
harsh, grim, or severe in appearance:The room was simple and stark.
bluntly or sternly plain:The stark reality of our situation finally hit home.
sharply or harshly distinct:a stark contrast.

adv.

absolutely, completely, utterly;
quite:stark raving mad.

stark•ness, n. [uncountable]

stark (stärk),USA pronunciation adj., -er, -est, adv.
adj.

sheer, utter, downright, or complete:stark madness.
harsh, grim, or desolate, as a view, place, etc.:a stark landscape.
extremely simple or severe:a stark interior.
bluntly or sternly plain;
not softened or glamorized:the stark reality of the schedule's deadline.
stiff or rigid in substance, muscles, etc.
rigid in death.
[Archaic.]strong;
powerful;
massive or robust.

adv.

utterly, absolutely, or quite:stark mad.
Scottish Terms[Chiefly Scot. and North Eng.]in a stark manner;
stoutly or vigorously.

bef. 900; (adjective, adjectival) Middle English; Old English stearc stiff, firm; cognate with German stark strong; akin to Old Norse sterkr strong; akin to starch, stare; (adverb, adverbial) Middle English sterke, derivative of the adjective, adjectival

stark′ly, adv.
stark′ness, n.

austere, bare.

Stark (stärk; for 2 also Ger. shtärk),USA pronunciation n.

Biographical John, 1728–1822, American Revolutionary War general.

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::

stark /stɑːk/ adj

(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 or poetic rigid, as in death (esp in the phrase stiff and stark)
short for stark-naked

adv

completely: stark mad, stark dead

Etymology: Old English stearc stiff; related to Old Norse sterkr, Gothic gastaurknan to stiffenˈstarkly adv ˈstarkness n

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::

Stark n

/stɑːk/ 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)
/German: ʃtark/ 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' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):

crude - naked - starch - stark-naked - stork - austere - bare - buck - harsh - high-tech - mother-naked - young - stare - Stark effect - starkers - stretch - strong

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Collocations: a stark (and simple) [room, hall, building, place, corridor], the [room] is [a little, rather, fairly, quite] stark, a stark [landscape, field], more...

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