Definitions
to the fullest degree
Word origin
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 (“stiff, strong”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)terg- (“rigid, stiff”).
Used in a sentence
“Stark beer, boy, stout and strong beer.”
“a stark, moss-trooping Scot”
“His heauie head, deuoide of carefull carke, / Whose sences all were straight benumbd and starke.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Bare and plain”5 letters
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