stark
stark is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 6 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Complete; absolute; full; perfect; entire. [Obs.] Consider the stark security The common wealth is in now. B. Jonson.
- 2.Strong; vigorous; powerful. A stark, moss-trooping Scot. Sir W. Scott. Stark beer, boy, stout and strong beer. Beau. & Fl.
- 3.Severe; violent; fierce. [Obs.] "In starke stours." [i. e., in fierce combats]. Chaucer.
- 4.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.
- 5.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, "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.
- 6.To stiffen. [R.] If horror have not starked your limbs. H. Taylor.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- adamant
- adamantean
- adamantine
- altogether
- back
- bald
- bare
- bareback
- barebacked
- barefoot
- bareness
- birthday
- block
- board
- bone
- bony
- brick
- buckram
- buff
- calculous
- callosity
- callow
- cartilage
- cartilaginous
- cast
- cement
- concrete
- coot
- corneous
- cover
- crag
- crystal
- crystallization
- deal
- decorticate
- decortication
- denudation
- denude
- depilation
- desquamation
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is stark.
- What is complete; absolute; full; perfect; entire. [Obs.] Consider the stark security The common wealth is in now. B. Jonson called?
- What is strong; vigorous; powerful. A stark, moss-trooping Scot. Sir W. Scott. Stark beer, boy, stout and strong beer. Beau. & Fl called?
- What is severe; violent; fierce. [Obs.] "In starke stours." [i. e., in fierce combats]. Chaucer called?
- What is 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 called?
- What is to stiffen. [R.] If horror have not starked your limbs. H. Taylor called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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