said of a landscape, surroundings, etc: bleak or bare; desolate
harshly clear or plain
the stark reality
sheer; utter
stark terror
short for stark-naked
archaic or literary
rigid in or as if in death
strong; robust
stark mad/stark staring mad
informal utterly mad
starkly adv
starkness noun
[Old English stearc hard, unyielding, rigid]