[stɑːk], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- severe or bare in appearance or outline
(e.g: the ridge formed a stark silhouette against the sky)

- complete; sheer
(e.g: he came running back in stark terror)

- stiff, rigid, or incapable of movement
(e.g: a human body lying stiff and stark by the stream)


Phrases:
- stark naked
- stark raving mad

Origin:
Old English stearc ‘unyielding, severe’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch sterk and German stark ‘strong’