stark
[ stahrk ]
/ stɑrk /
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adjective, stark·er, stark·est.
adverb
utterly, absolutely, or quite: stark mad.
Chiefly Scot. and North England. in a stark manner; stoutly or vigorously.
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Origin of stark
OTHER WORDS FROM stark
stark·ly, adverbstark·ness, nounOther definitions for stark (2 of 2)
Stark
[ stahrk; for 2 also German shtahrk ]
/ stɑrk; for 2 also German ʃtɑrk /
noun
Harold Rayns·ford [reynz-ferd], /ˈreɪnz fərd/, 1880–1972, U.S. admiral.
Jo·han·nes [yoh-hah-nuhs], /yoʊˈhɑ nəs/, 1874–1957, German physicist: Nobel Prize 1919.
John, 1728–1822, American Revolutionary War general.
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How to use stark in a sentence
Eventually, in perhaps the starkest act of discrimination here, much of the road was closed to Palestinians altogether in 1994.
“It allows us to frame the contrast in the starkest terms possible,” a senior leadership aide said.
In Mandeville, and in Kaye, it is presented only in its barest and starkest form.
A Letter to Dion|Bernard MandevilleA sea-voyage lays bare many secrets and shows up human nature at its starkest.
Jan and Her Job|L. Allen Harker
British Dictionary definitions for stark (1 of 2)
stark
/ (stɑːk) /
adjective
adverb
completelystark mad
Derived forms of stark
starkly, adverbstarkness, nounWord Origin for stark
Old English stearc stiff; related to Old Norse sterkr, Gothic gastaurknan to stiffen
British Dictionary definitions for stark (2 of 2)
Stark
noun
(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)
(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
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