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# stark

«stark» in Mova's school dictionary: **bare, plain and harsh, with nothing added** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (starker, starkest); adverb

### meaning for a pupil

1) Stark means bare, plain and harsh, with nothing added. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stark/#m3)

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

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «stark» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stark/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.