stark

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
stark/stɑːk/

▶adjective

• 1 severe or bare in appearance.

• 2 unpleasantly or sharply clear.

• 3 complete; sheer: stark terror.

• 4 rare naked.

• 5 archaic or literary rigid or incapable of movement.

  ■ physically strong.

– phrases
stark naked completely naked.
stark raving (or staring) mad informal completely mad.

– derivatives
starkly adverb,
starkness noun.

– origin OE stearc ‘unyielding, severe’, of Gmc origin.