(obsolete) Hard, firm; obdurate. / Severe; violent; fierce (now usually in describing the weather). / (poetic, literary or archaic) Strong; vigorous; powerful. / Stiff, rigid.

starkly; entirely, absolutely

(obsolete or dialect) To stiffen.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of stark

simple past tense and past participle of stark

present participle of stark

(uncountable) The state or quality of being stark. / (countable) The result or product of being stark.

plural of starkness

A surname. / An unincorporated community in Butts County, Georgia. / An unincorporated community in Stark County, Illinois. / A tiny city in Neosho County, Kansas.

(fiction) The language spoken in the Ender's Game series, which is nearly identical to American English.