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Definitions for Stark

[1] sheer, utter, downright, or complete: stark madness.
[2] harsh, grim, or desolate, as a view, place, etc.: a stark landscape.
[3] extremely simple or severe: a stark interior.
[4] bluntly or sternly plain; not softened or glamorized: the stark reality of the schedule's deadline.
[5] stiff or rigid in substance, muscles, etc.
[6] rigid in death.
[7] Archaic . strong; powerful; massive or robust.
[8] utterly, absolutely, or quite: stark mad.
[9] Chiefly Scot. and North England . in a stark manner; stoutly or vigorously.
[10] Harold Rayns·ford [reynz -ferd] /ˈreɪnz fərd/ , 1880–1972, U.S. admiral.
[11] Jo·han·nes [yoh-hah -nuh  s] /yoʊˈhɑ nəs/ , 1874–1957, German physicist: Nobel prize 1919.
[12] John, 1728–1822, American Revolutionary War general.
[13] (usually prenominal) devoid of any elaboration; blunt the stark facts
[14] grim; desolate a stark landscape
[15] (usually prenominal) utter; absolute stark folly
[16] archaic severe; violent
[17] archaic , or poetic rigid, as in death (esp in the phrases stiff and stark, stark dead )
[18] short for stark-naked
[19] completely stark mad
[20] (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)
[21] (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

Words related to Stark

simple, blunt, desolate, austere, harsh, depressing, grim, bleak, abrupt, arrant, bald, bare, blessed, complete, confounded, consummate, downright, entire, firm, flagrant

Words nearby Stark

starfished, starflower, starfucker, stargaze, stargazer, stark, stark effect, stark raving mad, stark-naked, starker, starkers

Origin of Stark

before 900; (adj.) Middle English; Old English stearc stiff, firm; cognate with German stark strong; akin to Old Norse sterkr strong; akin to starch, stare; (adv.) Middle English sterke, derivative of the adj.

Other words from Stark

stark·ly , adverb
stark·ness , noun

Word origin for Stark

Old English stearc stiff; related to Old Norse sterkr , Gothic gastaurknan to stiffen

Synonyms for Stark

blunt, simple, abrupt, arrant, bald, bare, blasted, blessed, complete, confounded, consummate, downright, entire, firm, flagrant, gross, infernal, out-and-out, outright, palpable, patent, pure, rank, severe, sheer, stiff, unalloyed, unmitigated