Stark means "complete or extreme," like the stark contrast between your music taste punk and weird metal and your mom's, with all her 1950's doo wop favorites.
Stiff; rigid.
Adjective S.
providing no shelter or sustenance; "bare rocky hills"; "barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark landscape"
Adjective S.
complete or extreme; "stark poverty"; "a stark contrast"
Adjective S.
severely simple; "a stark interior"
Adverb
completely; "stark mad"; "mouth stark open"
n.
Stiff; rigid.
n.
Complete; absolute; full; perfect; entire.
n.
Strong; vigorous; powerful.
n.
Severe; violent; fierce.
n.
Mere; sheer; gross; entire; downright.
adv.
Wholly; entirely; absolutely; quite; as, stark mind.
v. t.
To stiffen.
Stark
Whose senses all were straight benumbed and stark.
His heart gan wax as stark as marble stone.
Many a nobleman lies stark and stiff Under the hoofs of vaunting enemies.
The north is not so stark and cold.2.
Consider the stark security The common wealth is in now.3.
A stark, moss-trooping Scot.
Stark beer, boy, stout and strong beer.4.
He pronounces the citation stark nonsense.
Rhetoric is very good or stark naught; there's no medium in rhetoric.
Stark
Held him strangled in his arms till he was stark dead.
Strip your sword stark naked.
Stark
If horror have not starked your limbs.
Stiff; rigid.
Wholly; entirely; absolutely; quite;
To stiffen.
Usage Examples
Every day, families in the United States face the stark choice between a roof over their heads and food on the table. Buying health insurance, owning a home, and saving up for college are just too far out of their reach.
For many in baseball September is a month of stark contrast with April, when everyone had dared to hope. If baseball is a lot like life, as pundits declare, it is because life is more about losing than winning.
To deal with the stark reality of having hit or hurt a woman or child, to deal with the initial responsibility you have not to do that and the knowledge you did do it, can be incredibly hard.
I was given baby doll toys myself, and they proved a stark reminder that my life was expected to revolve around childbearing - just as my mom's had before me, and her mom's had before her.
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Other Usage ExamplesI'm out there arguing the Labor case. I will do it anywhere and everywhere that I can. I do it within various communities across Australia where I am able to make a positive contribution. And let me tell you, my voice won't be silenced in the public debate because the issue at stake for Australia are so stark.
The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war.
I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than Jerry Brown doing that. So it'll be a stark contrast, a career politician vs. someone who has met a payroll, gotten a return on investment, knows how to use technology to do more with less.
Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.
I tend not to trust people who live in very tidy houses. I know that on the surface there is nothing wrong with a person being well-ordered and disciplined. Nothing, except that it leaves the impression of that person having lived in the confines of a stark institution which, although he or she has long since left, remains within.