Usually means: Utterly clear, severe, or bare.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. stark: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Stark, stark: Merriam-Webster
  3. Stark, stark, stark: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. stark: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. stark: Collins English Dictionary
  6. stark: Vocabulary.com
  7. Stark, stark: Wordnik
  8. stark: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Stark, stark: Wiktionary
  10. stark: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. stark: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. stark: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. stark: Dictionary.com
  14. stark: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. stark: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Stark (Farscape), Stark (TV miniseries), Stark (language), Stark (miniseries), Stark (novel), Stark (species), Stark (surname), Stark: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Stark: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. stark: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. stark: Rhymezone
  20. stark, stark: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. stark: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. stark: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. stark: Robb: German English
  24. stark: FreeDictionary.org
  25. stark: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. stark: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stark: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Stark: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stark: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. stark: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Stark: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (obsolete) Hard, firm; obdurate.
adjective:  Severe; violent; fierce (now usually in describing the weather).
adjective:  (poetic, literary or archaic) Strong; vigorous; powerful.
adjective:  Stiff, rigid.
adjective:  Plain in appearance; barren, desolate.
adjective:  Naked.
adjective:  Complete, absolute, full.
adverb:  starkly; entirely, absolutely
verb:  (obsolete or dialect) To stiffen.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A number of places in the United States:
noun:  An unincorporated community in Butts County, Georgia.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Stark County, Illinois.
noun:  A tiny city in Neosho County, Kansas.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Elliott County, Kentucky.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Pike County, Missouri.
noun:  A small town in Coos County, New Hampshire.
noun:  A small town in Herkimer County, New York, named after John Stark.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Boone County, West Virginia.
noun:  A small town in Vernon County, Wisconsin.
noun:  (fiction) The language spoken in the Ender's Game series, which is nearly identical to American English.

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