Stark

Adjective

 * 1)  hard, firm; obdurate.
 * 2) severe; violent; fierce (now usually in describing the weather)
 * 3)  strong; vigorous; powerful.
 * 4) stiff, rigid
 * His body was already stiff and stark.
 * 1) hard in appearance; barren, desolate
 * I picked my way forlornly through the stark, sharp rocks.
 * 1) complete, absolute, full
 * I screamed in stark terror.

Adverb

 * 1) starkly; entirely, absolutely
 * He's gone stark, staring mad.
 * She was just standing there, stark naked.
 * A flower appeared, in stark comparison, out of the sidewalk.

Thesaurus
Spartan, absolute, absolutely, altogether, arrant, ascetic, austere, bald, bare, barren, basic, blasted, bleak, blessed, blunt, candid, chaste, classical, clean, clear, clearly, cold, common, commonplace, complete, completely, confounded, consummate, crass, decided, definitive, depressing, desolate, direct, downright, drear, dreary, dry, dull, egregious, elementary, empty, entirely, essential, evident, flagrant, frank, fully, fundamental, glaring, grey, grim, gross, hard, harsh, homely, homespun, homogeneous, indivisible, infernal, inornate, intolerable, irreducible, irretrievably, irrevocably, lean, matter-of-fact, mere, monolithic, naked, natural, neat, nude, obvious, obviously, of a piece, open, out-and-out, outright, patent, perfect, perfectly, plain, plain-speaking, plain-spoken, plainly, plumb, positive, primary, profound, pronounced, proper, prosaic, prosing, prosy, pure, pure and simple, quite, rank, ravaged, raw, regular, right, rustic, severe, shattering, sheer, shocking, simon-pure, simple, simple-speaking, single, sober, spare, spooky, stark-naked, stark-staring, straightforward, stripped, superlative, surpassing, the veriest, thorough, thoroughgoing, total, totally, unadorned, unaffected, unbearable, unclad, unclothed, uncluttered, unconditional, unconscionable, undeniable, undifferenced, undifferentiated, unelaborate, unembellished, unenhanced, unequivocal, unfancy, unfussy, uniform, unimaginative, unmitigated, unornate, unpoetical, unqualified, unrelieved, unrelievedly, unspoiled, unvarnished, utter, utterly, vacant, vacuous, void, wholly

Etymology
stearc

Adjective

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Adverb

 * Czech: úplně,, dočista

Verb

 * 1) (obsolete except in dialects) To stiffen.
 * 2)  To edit mercilessly with an iron hand
 * Laurie needs to stark this asap.

Related terms

 * starkish
 * starkly
 * starkers

Anagrams

 * karst, Karst
 * karts

Adjective

 * 1) strong

Etymology
Old High German stark

Adjective
stark


 * 1) strong

Etymology
, whence also Old English stearc, Old Norse sterkr

Adjective

 * 1) strong; able to use great force
 * 2) strong; capable of withstanding great physical force
 * 3) strong; highly stimulating to the senses
 * starkt ljus
 * strong light
 * 1) spicy, hot; with a biting taste
 * 2) strong; having a high concentration of an essential; possibly alcohol
 * starkt kaffe
 * strong coffee
 * 1)  strong
 * 2)  strong; not easily subdued or taken

Etymology
Old Norse sterkr

Related terms

 * styrka
 * stärka
 * styrkelyft


 * starkt verb / stark böjning

Synonyms

 * able to use great force
 * kraftfull
 * capable of withstanding force
 * stadig
 * spicy
 * het
 * having intense odor or flavor
 * frän, skarp, stickande