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say it: stahrk
stark is an adjective and adverb meaning "devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment". It carries 6 recorded senses.
devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment
“the blunt truth”
“the crude facts”
“facing the stark reality of the deadline”
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 thorough nuisance”
“a thoroughgoing villain”
“utter nonsense”
“the unadulterated truth”
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”
completely
“stark mad”
“mouth stark open”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for stark come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.