Definition of starker Starker
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What does starker mean?
Part of speech
🔤- starker, adjective, comparative of stark.
WordNet
Adjectivestark, starker, starkest |
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| stark - complete or extreme; "stark poverty"; "a stark contrast" | ||
| immoderate beyond reasonable limits; "immoderate laughter"; "immoderate spending" | ||
| stark - 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" | ||
| bare, barren, bleak, desolate | ||
| inhospitable unfavorable to life or growth; "the barren inhospitable desert"; "inhospitable mountain areas" | ||
| stark - severely simple; "a stark interior" | ||
| austere, severe, stern | ||
| plain lacking embellishment or ornamentation; "a plain hair style"; "unembellished white walls"; "functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete" | ||
| stark - devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment; "the blunt truth"; "the crude facts"; "facing the stark reality of the deadline" | ||
| blunt, crude | ||
| unconditioned, unconditional not established by conditioning or learning; "an unconditioned reflex" | ||
| stark - 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" | ||
| arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, thoroughgoing, utter, unadulterated | ||
Adverb |
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| stark - completely; "stark mad"; "mouth stark open" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- stark (Verb)
To stiffen. - stark (Adverb)
starkly; entirely, absolutely. - stark (Adjective)
Hard, firm; obdurate. - stark (Adjective)
Severe; violent; fierce now usually in describing the weather. - stark (Adjective)
Strong; vigorous; powerful. - stark (Adjective)
Stiff, rigid. - stark (Adjective)
Hard in appearance; barren, desolate. - stark (Adjective)
Complete, absolute, full.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- stark (n.)
Stiff; rigid. - stark (n.)
Complete; absolute; full; perfect; entire. - stark (n.)
Strong; vigorous; powerful. - stark (n.)
Severe; violent; fierce. - stark (n.)
Mere; sheer; gross; entire; downright. - stark (adv.)
Wholly; entirely; absolutely; quite; as, stark mind. - stark (v. t.)
To stiffen.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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stark
stärk, adj. stiff: gross: absolute: entire: naked, an abbreviation of Stark′-nā′ked, quite naked, which is really a corr. of M. E. start-naked=tail-naked (A.S. steort, a tail).—adv. absolutely: completely.—v.t. to make stark, as in death.—v.t. Stark′en, to stiffen, to make obstinate.—adv. Stark′ly.—n. Stark′ness, the state or quality of being stark: stiffness; stoutness. [A.S. stearc, hard, strong; cog. Ice. sterk-r, Ger. stark.]
