Hard, firm; obdurate.
Severe; violent; fierce (now usually in describing the weather).
Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.
Strong; vigorous; powerful.
Stark beer, boy, stout and strong beer.
Starkly; entirely, absolutely.
He's gone stark, staring mad.
A surname.
A number of places in the United States:
The language spoken in the Ender's Game series, which is nearly identical to American English.
From Middle English stark, starc, from Old English stearc, starc (“stiff, rigid, unyielding, obstinate, hard, strong, severe, violent”), from Proto-West Germanic *stark, from Proto-Germanic *starkuz (...
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