stark : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: stark	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for stark
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
stark adv completely; "stark mad"; "mouth stark open" adj devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment; "the blunt truth"; "the crude facts"; "facing the stark reality of the deadline" Synonym(s): blunt, crude(a), stark(a) severely simple; "a stark interior" Synonym(s): austere, severe, stark, stern complete or extreme; "stark poverty"; "a stark contrast" 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"; "the unadulterated truth" Synonym(s): arrant(a), complete(a), consummate(a), double-dyed(a), everlasting(a), gross(a), perfect(a), pure(a), sodding(a), stark(a), staring(a), thoroughgoing(a), utter(a), unadulterated 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" Synonym(s): bare, barren, bleak, desolate, stark
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Stark \Stark\, adv. Wholly; entirely; absolutely; quite; as, stark mind. --Shak. Held him strangled in his arms till he was stark dead. --Fuller. {Stark naked}, wholly naked; quite bare. Strip your sword stark naked. --Shak. Note: According to Professor Skeat, [bd]stark-naked[b8] 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Stark \Stark\, a. [Compar. {Starker}; superl. {Starkest}.] [OE. stark stiff, strong, AS. stearc; akin to OS. starc strong, D. sterk, OHG. starc, starah, G. & Sw. stark, Dan. st[91]rk, Icel. sterkr, Goth. gasta[a3]rknan to become dried up, Lith. str[89]gti to stiffen, to freeze. Cf. {Starch}, a. & n.] 1. Stiff; rigid. --Chaucer. Whose senses all were straight benumbed and stark. --Spenser. His heart gan wax as stark as marble stone. --Spenser. Many a nobleman lies stark and stiff Under the hoofs of vaunting enemies. --Shak. The north is not so stark and cold. --B. Jonson. 2. Complete; absolute; full; perfect; entire. [Obs.] Consider the stark security The common wealth is in now. --B. Jonson. 3. Strong; vigorous; powerful. A stark, moss-trooping Scot. --Sir W. Scott. Stark beer, boy, stout and strong beer. --Beau. & Fl. 4. Severe; violent; fierce. [Obs.] [bd]In starke stours.[b8] [i. e., in fierce combats]. --Chaucer. 5. Mere; sheer; gross; entire; downright. He pronounces the citation stark nonsense. --Collier. Rhetoric is very good or stark naught; there's no medium in rhetoric. --Selden.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Stark \Stark\, v. t. To stiffen. [R.] If horror have not starked your limbs. --H. Taylor.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
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 code(s): 66775