stark
IPA: stˈɑrk
noun
- A surname.
- An unincorporated community in Butts County, Georgia.
- An unincorporated community in Stark County, Illinois.
- A tiny city in Neosho County, Kansas.
- An unincorporated community in Elliott County, Kentucky.
- An unincorporated community in Pike County, Missouri.
- A small town in Coos County, New Hampshire.
- A small town in Herkimer County, New York.
- An unincorporated community in Boone County, West Virginia.
- A small town in Vernon County, Wisconsin.
- (fiction) The language spoken in the Ender's Game series, which is nearly identical to American English.
verb
- (obsolete or dialect) To stiffen.
adjective
- (obsolete) Hard, firm; obdurate.
- Severe; violent; fierce (now usually in describing the weather).
- (poetic, literary or archaic) Strong; vigorous; powerful.
- Stiff, rigid.
- Plain in appearance; barren, desolate.
- Naked.
- Complete, absolute, full.
adverb
- starkly; entirely, absolutely
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Examples of "stark" in Sentences
- The style is stark and uncompromising.
- Have the Bushites gone stark raving stupid
- The atmosphere is quite stark at the moment.
- His disavowal is far to stark for them to get around.
- Its stark concrete walls evoke the solemnity of death.
- The contrast with the rest of the material is too stark.
- The interiors of the trains are largely stark and simplistic.
- He stood in front a stark panel in the center of the passage.
- His embrace of egoism is in stark contrast to Godwin's altruism.
- There is a stark difference in the style of the humour and the humor.
- Stepping closer, Worf appraised her with an expression of stark admiration.
- Galbraith's proposal does stand in stark contrast with the rumored position of the fiscal commission.
- His expression stark, he admitted, “Just two nights ago, I…I almost strangled her to death while I slept.”
- She heard the slide of his zipper and her heart seized, the pulse skittering in her throat as she gazed up at his hungry face, his expression stark and pained.
- "Mr. Reynolds 'opinions are in stark contrast to the core values of the Champaign County Republican Party and are personally offensive to me," party Chairman Jason Barickman told the News-Gazette.
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