[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

stark \stark\ staumrk, a. compar. starker -~er;
   superl. starkest. oe. stark stiff, strong, as. stearc;
   akin to os. starc strong, d. sterk, ohg. starc, starah, g. 
   sw. stark, dan. staerk, icel. sterkr, goth. gasta'urknan to
   become dried up, lith. str"egti to stiffen, to freeze. cf.
   starch, a.  n.
   1. stiff; rigid. --chaucer.
      1913 webster

            whose senses all were straight benumbed and stark.
                                                  --spenser.
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            his heart gan wax as stark as marble stone.
                                                  --spenser.
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            many a nobleman lies stark and stiff
            under the hoofs of vaunting enemies.  --shak.
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            the north is not so stark and cold.   --b. jonson.
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   2. complete; absolute; full; perfect; entire. obs.
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            consider the stark security
            the common wealth is in now.          --b. jonson.
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   3. strong; vigorous; powerful.
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            a stark, moss-trooping scot.          --sir w.
                                                  scott.
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            stark beer, boy, stout and strong beer. --beau. 
                                                  fl.
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   4. severe; violent; fierce. obs. "in starke stours" i. e.,
      in fierce combats. --chaucer.
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   5. mere; sheer; gross; entire; downright.
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            he pronounces the citation stark nonsense.
                                                  --collier.
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            rhetoric is very good or stark naught; there's no
            medium in rhetoric.                   --selden.
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see also:
starker starkest starch 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

stark \stark\ staumrk, adv.
   wholly; entirely; absolutely; quite; as, stark mad. --shak.
   1913 webster

         held him strangled in his arms till he was stark dead.
                                                  --fuller.
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   stark naked, wholly naked; quite bare.
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            strip your sword stark naked.         --shak.
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   note: according to professor skeat, "stark-naked" is derived
         from steort-naked, or start-naked, literally
         tail-naked, and hence wholly naked. if this etymology
         be true the preferable form is stark-naked.
         1913 webster
see also:
stark naked 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

stark \stark\, v. t.
   to stiffen. r.
   1913 webster

         if horror have not starked your limbs.   --h. taylor.
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[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

stark
     adj 1: devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment; "the
            blunt truth"; "the crude facts"; "facing the stark
            reality of the deadline" syn: blunt, crudea, starka
     2: severely simple; "a stark interior" syn: austere, severe
     3: complete or extreme; "stark poverty"; "a stark contrast"
     4: without qualification; used informally as often pejorative
        intensifiers; "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a
        consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross
        negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a
        sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing
        villain"; "utter nonsense" syn: arranta, completea,
         consummatea, double-dyeda, everlastinga, grossa,
         perfecta, purea, soddinga, starka, staringa,
         thoroughgoinga, uttera
     5: providing no shelter or sustenance; "bare rocky hills";
        "barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high
        andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark
        landscape" syn: bare, barren, bleak, desolate
     adv : completely; "stark mad"; "mouth stark open"
see also:
blunt crudea starka austere severe arranta 
completea consummatea double-dyeda everlastinga grossa 
perfecta purea soddinga staringa thoroughgoinga 
uttera bare barren bleak desolate 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

159 moby thesaurus words for "stark":
   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

[6] : U.S. Gazetteer (1990)

stark, ks city, fips 68025
  location: 37.68955 n, 95.14332 w
  population 1990: 79 42 housing units
  area: 0.5 sq km land, 0.0 sq km water
  zip codes: 66775

[7] : U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000)

stark -- u.s. county in illinois
   population 2000:    6332
   housing units 2000: 2725
   land area 2000:     287.937834 sq. miles 745.755535 sq. km
   water area 2000:    0.275745 sq. miles 0.714176 sq. km
   total area 2000:    288.213579 sq. miles 746.469711 sq. km
   located within:       illinois il, fips 17
   location:             41.097764 n, 89.802300 w
   headwords:
    stark
    stark, il
    stark county
    stark county, il

[8] : U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000)

stark -- u.s. county in ohio
   population 2000:    378098
   housing units 2000: 157024
   land area 2000:     576.136229 sq. miles 1492.185919 sq. km
   water area 2000:    4.773125 sq. miles 12.362336 sq. km
   total area 2000:    580.909354 sq. miles 1504.548255 sq. km
   located within:       ohio oh, fips 39
   location:             40.819408 n, 81.383599 w
   headwords:
    stark
    stark, oh
    stark county
    stark county, oh

[9] : U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000)

stark -- u.s. county in north dakota
   population 2000:    22636
   housing units 2000: 9722
   land area 2000:     1338.162493 sq. miles 3465.824800 sq. km
   water area 2000:    2.300379 sq. miles 5.957955 sq. km
   total area 2000:    1340.462872 sq. miles 3471.782755 sq. km
   located within:       north dakota nd, fips 38
   location:             46.852248 n, 102.712489 w
   headwords:
    stark
    stark, nd
    stark county
    stark county, nd

[10] : U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)

stark, ks -- u.s. city in kansas
   population 2000:    106
   housing units 2000: 47
   land area 2000:     0.174053 sq. miles 0.450794 sq. km
   water area 2000:    0.000000 sq. miles 0.000000 sq. km
   total area 2000:    0.174053 sq. miles 0.450794 sq. km
   fips code:            68025
   located within:       kansas ks, fips 20
   location:             37.689592 n, 95.143573 w
   zip codes 1990:     66775
   note: some zip codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   headwords:
    stark, ks
    stark

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