'Stark' definitions:

Definition of 'stark'

From: WordNet
adverb
Completely; "stark mad"; "mouth stark open"
adjective
Devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment; "the blunt truth"; "the crude facts"; "facing the stark reality of the deadline" [syn: blunt, crude(a), stark(a)]
adjective
Severely simple; "a stark interior" [syn: austere, severe, stark, stern]
adjective
Complete or extreme; "stark poverty"; "a stark contrast"
adjective
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" [syn: 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]
adjective
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, stark]

Definition of 'Stark'

From: GCIDE
  • Stark \Stark\ (st[aum]rk), a. [Compar. Starker (-[~e]r); 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['u]rknan to become dried up, Lith. str["e]gti to stiffen, to freeze. Cf. Starch, a. & n.]
  • 1. Stiff; rigid. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • Whose senses all were straight benumbed and stark. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
  • His heart gan wax as stark as marble stone. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
  • Many a nobleman lies stark and stiff Under the hoofs of vaunting enemies. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • The north is not so stark and cold. --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Complete; absolute; full; perfect; entire. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • Consider the stark security The common wealth is in now. --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Strong; vigorous; powerful. [1913 Webster]
  • A stark, moss-trooping Scot. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
  • Stark beer, boy, stout and strong beer. --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Severe; violent; fierce. [Obs.] "In starke stours" [i. e., in fierce combats]. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. Mere; sheer; gross; entire; downright. [1913 Webster]
  • He pronounces the citation stark nonsense. --Collier. [1913 Webster]
  • Rhetoric is very good or stark naught; there's no medium in rhetoric. --Selden. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Stark'

From: GCIDE
  • Stark \Stark\ (st[aum]rk), adv. Wholly; entirely; absolutely; quite; as, stark mad. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • Held him strangled in his arms till he was stark dead. --Fuller. [1913 Webster]
  • Stark naked, wholly naked; quite bare. [1913 Webster]
  • Strip your sword stark naked. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 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]

Definition of 'Stark'

From: GCIDE
  • Stark \Stark\, v. t. To stiffen. [R.] [1913 Webster]
  • If horror have not starked your limbs. --H. Taylor. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'stark'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Stark, KS -- U.S. city in Kansas

From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
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.

Stark -- U.S. County in Illinois

From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
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

Stark -- U.S. County in Ohio

From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
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

Stark -- U.S. County in North Dakota

From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
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