Stark

a.	1.	Stiff; rigid. Whose senses all were straight benumbed and stark. - Spenser. His heart gan wax as stark as marble stone. - Spenser. Many a nobleman lies stark and stiff Under the hoofs of vaunting enemies. - Shak. The north is not so stark and cold. - B. Jonson.
	2.	Complete; absolute; full; perfect; entire. Consider the stark security The common wealth is in now. - B. Jonson.
	3.	Strong; vigorous; powerful. A stark, moss-trooping Scot. - Sir W. Scott. Stark beer, boy, stout and strong beer. - Beau. & Fl.
	4.	Severe; violent; fierce.
	5.	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.
adv.	1.	Wholly; entirely; absolutely; quite; as, stark mad. Held him strangled in his arms till he was stark dead. - Fuller. Stark naked wholly naked; quite bare. Strip your sword stark naked. - Shak.
v. t.	1.	To stiffen. If horror have not starked your limbs. - H. Taylor.

Adj.	1.	stark - devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment; "the blunt truth"; "the crude facts"; "facing the stark reality of the deadline" Synonyms: blunt, crude
	2.	stark - severely simple; "a stark interior" Synonyms: austere, severe
	3.	stark - complete or extreme; "stark poverty"; "a stark contrast"
	4.	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" Synonyms: arrant, double-dyed, sodding, utter, staring, thoroughgoing, perfect, pure, consummate, everlasting, complete, gross
	5.	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" Synonyms: barren, desolate, bleak, bare
Adv.	1.	stark - completely; "stark mad"; "mouth stark open"

Spartan, absolutely, altogether, arrant, ascetic, austere, bald, bare, barren, basic, blasted, bleak, blessed, blunt, candid, chaste, classical, clean, clear, clearly, cold, common, commonplace, completely, confounded, consummate, crass, decided, definitive, depressing, desolate, direct, downright, drear, dreary, dry, dull, egregious, elementary, empty, entirely, essential, evident, flagrant, frank, fully, fundamental, glaring, grey, grim, gross, hard, homely, homespun, homogeneous, indivisible, infernal, inornate, intolerable, irreducible, irretrievably, irrevocably, lean, matter-of-fact, mere, monolithic, naked, natural, neat, nude, obvious, obviously, of a piece, open, out-and-out, outright, patent, perfect, perfectly, plain, plain-speaking, plain-spoken, plainly, plumb, positive, primary, profound, pronounced, proper, prosaic, prosing, prosy, pure, pure and simple, quite, rank, ravaged, raw, regular, right, rustic, shattering, shocking, simon-pure, simple, simple-speaking, single, sober, spare, spooky, stark-naked, stark-staring, straightforward, stripped, superlative, surpassing, the veriest, thorough, thoroughgoing, total, totally, unadorned, unaffected, unbearable, unclad, unclothed, uncluttered, unconditional, unconscionable, undeniable, undifferenced, undifferentiated, unelaborate, unembellished, unenhanced, unequivocal, unfancy, unfussy, uniform, unimaginative, unmitigated, unornate, unpoetical, unqualified, unrelieved, unrelievedly, unspoiled, unvarnished, utterly, vacant, vacuous, void, wholly

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