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stark

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[ stahrk ]

adjective

starker, starkest.
  1. sheer, utter, downright, or complete:

    This plan is stark madness!

  2. harsh, grim, or desolate, as a view, place, etc.:

    Her photos capture the stark desert landscape.

  3. extremely simple or severe:

    With its stark interior and rough ride, the car scores low in our luxury car ranking.

  4. bluntly or sternly plain; not softened or glamorized:

    He panicked suddenly at the stark reality of the approaching deadline.

  5. distinct, sharp, or vivid:

    The thriving community gardens stood in stark contrast to vacant land and abandoned buildings.

  6. stiff or rigid in substance, muscles, etc.
  7. rigid in death.
  8. Archaic. strong; powerful; massive or robust.


adverb

  1. utterly, absolutely, or quite:

    stark mad.

  2. Chiefly Scot. and North England. in a stark manner; stoutly or vigorously.

Stark

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[ stahrk; German shtahrk ]

noun

  1. Harold Rayns路ford [reynz, -ferd], 1880鈥1972, U.S. admiral.
  2. 闯辞路丑补苍路苍别蝉 [yoh-, hah, -n, uh, s], 1874鈥1957, German physicist: Nobel Prize 1919.
  3. John, 1728鈥1822, American Revolutionary War general.

Stark

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noun

  1. 蝉迟蓱藧办 StarkFreya (Madeline), Dame18931993FBritishTRAVEL AND EXPLORATION: travellerWRITING: writer Dame Freya ( Madeline ) (藞fre瑟蓹). 1893鈥1993, British traveller and writer, whose many books include The Southern Gates of Arabia (1936), Beyond Euphrates (1951), and The Journey's Echo (1963)
  2. 蕛迟补谤办 StarkJohannes18741957MGermanSCIENCE: physicist Johannes (jo藞han蓹s). 1874鈥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
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

stark

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/ 蝉迟蓱藧办 /

adjective

  1. usually prenominal devoid of any elaboration; blunt

    the stark facts

  2. grim; desolate

    a stark landscape

  3. usually prenominal utter; absolute

    stark folly

  4. archaic.
    severe; violent
  5. archaic.
    rigid, as in death (esp in the phrases stiff and stark, stark dead )
  6. short for stark-naked
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adverb

  1. completely

    stark mad

鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 藞蝉迟补谤办苍别蝉蝉, noun
  • 藞蝉迟补谤办濒测, adverb
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 蝉迟补谤办路濒测 adverb
  • 蝉迟补谤办路苍别蝉蝉 noun
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of stark1

First recorded before 900; (adjective) Middle English; Old English stearc 鈥渟tiff, firm鈥; cognate with German stark 鈥渟trong鈥; akin to Old Norse sterkr 鈥渟trong鈥; akin to starch, stare; (adverb) Middle English sterke, derivative of the adjective
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of stark1

Old English stearc stiff; related to Old Norse sterkr , Gothic gastaurknan to stiffen
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Director David Cromer, whose sensibility gravitates between stark and dark, endows the staging with macabre elegance.

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These stark disparities are signs of arbitrary action, not rational policymaking.

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Another unexpected find has been a woman tossed in a ditch, in stark contrast to all the other people who were buried with great care.

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