Meaning

7 senses
  1. Severe; violent; fierce (now usually in describing the weather).

    streng, gewaltig

  2. Stiff, rigid.

    steif, fest, hart

  3. Plain in appearance; barren, desolate.

    I picked my way forlornly through the stark, sharp rocks.

  4. Naked.

  5. Complete, absolute, full.

    I screamed in stark terror.

    A flower was growing, in stark contrast, out of the sidewalk.

    völlig, ganz, total

    complete or extreme

  6. (obsolete)Hard, firm; obdurate.

  7. (archaic, literary, poetic)Strong; vigorous; powerful.

Examples

41 sentences
  1. Have you gone stark raving mad?

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  2. Has everyone gone stark-raving mad?

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  3. Tom was standing there stark naked.

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  4. Tom has gone stark raving mad.

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  5. Tom was stark naked.

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Translations

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By meaning 3
severe; violent; fierce (now usually in describing the weather):
stiff, rigid:
complete, absolute, full:

Origin

From Middle English stark, starc, from Old English stearc, starc (“stiff, rigid, unyieldin

From Middle English stark, starc, from Old English stearc, starc (“stiff, rigid, unyielding, obstinate, hard, strong, severe, violent”), from Proto-West Germanic *stark, from Proto-Germanic *starkuz (“stiff, strong”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)terg- (“rigid, stiff”).

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Forms

starker, starkest
Comparativestarker Lesson
Superlativestarkest Lesson

regular

Synonyms

23 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

3 related words

Collocations

3 patterns
  • stark raving raving
  • stark raving
  • stark naked

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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