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Meaning of stark

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  stark
      adv 1: completely; "stark mad"; "mouth stark open"
      adj 1: 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)}]
      2: severely simple; "a stark interior" [syn: {austere},
         {severe}, {stark}, {stern}]
      3: complete or extreme; "stark poverty"; "a stark contrast"
      4: 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}]
      5: 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}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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