[
UK
/stˈɑːk/
]
[ US /ˈstɑɹk/ ]
[ US /ˈstɑɹk/ ]
ADVERB
-
completely
mouth stark open
stark mad
ADJECTIVE
-
complete or extreme
stark poverty
a stark contrast -
devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment
facing the stark reality of the deadline
the crude facts
the blunt truth -
severely simple
a stark interior -
providing no shelter or sustenance
barren lands
the desolate surface of the moon
the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes
bare rocky hills
a stark landscape -
without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
a thoroughgoing villain
utter nonsense
a perfect idiot
what a sodding mess
pure folly
the unadulterated truth
stark staring mad
a consummate fool
gross negligence
an arrant fool
a complete coward
a double-dyed villain
a thorough nuisance
How To Use stark In A Sentence
- Before you know it, all the Sandy Clarks and Billy Starks doing the media rounds are back in business until the next time they are given their jotters for failing to meet fans' expectations.
- It was in stark contrast to her usual bohemian style. The Sun
- Stark gave Izzard the warmest of welcomes and seems to have put no obstacle in the way of a biography.
- It's beautiful, stark and entirely original. Times, Sunday Times
- The slums and shanty towns stand in stark contrast to the multi-storey towers and the glamour of Bollywood.
- Her later sensual works contrast starkly with the harsh earlier paintings.
- Traditionally the life of a soldier involves long stretches of boredom punctuated by brief and seemingly unending moments of stark terror.
- My father was quite a skinny, emaciated man, my brother a build a stark halfway between my father and I.
- The hills stood stark against the winter sky.
- In stark contrast to its nature during the foundational period in the 1970s and early 1980s, the Commission in large measure both sets the Community agenda and acts as a power broker in the legislative process.