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# stark

adjective (starker, starkest); adverb

«stark» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Stark means bare, plain and harsh, with nothing added. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stark/#m1)
2. «Stark naked» or «stark mad» means completely naked or completely mad. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stark/#m2)
3. «Stark» can also be an adverb meaning totally: stark staring mad. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stark/#m3)

### In the lessons

in tales «stark» describes a cold, bare scene, or a person who is completely something, like stark mad

### Examples

- The room was stark and empty. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stark/#x1)
- The girl was stark naked in the cold river. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stark/#x2)
- The giant was stark mad with anger. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stark/#x3)
- The winter landscape looked stark and grey. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stark/#x4)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «stark» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stark/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«stark» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/stark.html) on Mova free.