stark
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Tính từ
adjective- 1.
(obsolete)Hard, firm; obdurate.
- 2.
Severe; violent; fierce (now usually in describing the weather).
- 3.
(archaic, literary, poetic)(poetic, literary or archaic) Strong; vigorous; powerful.
- 4.
Stiff, rigid.
- 5.
Plain in appearance; barren, desolate.
I picked my way forlornly through the stark, sharp rocks.
- 6.
Naked.
- 7.
Complete, absolute, full.
I screamed in stark terror.
A flower was growing, in stark contrast, out of the sidewalk.
1689 (first published posthumously), John Selden, Table-Talk Rhetoric is very good or stark naught; there's no medium in rhetoric.
Trạng từ
adverb- 1.
(not comparable)Starkly; entirely, absolutely.
He's gone stark, staring mad.
She was just standing there, stark naked.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(dialectal, obsolete)(obsolete or dialect) To stiffen.
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Nguồn gốc từ
From Middle English stark, starc, from Old English stearc, starc, from *stark, from Proto-Germanic *starkuz (stiff, strong), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)terg- (rigid, stiff).