The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stark \Stark\ (st[aum]rk), adv.
Wholly; entirely; absolutely; quite; as, stark mad.
--Shak.
Held him strangled in his arms till he was stark dead.
--Fuller.
Stark naked, wholly naked; quite bare.
Strip your sword stark naked.
--Shak.
Note: According to Professor Skeat, ``stark-naked'' is derived from steort-naked, or start-naked, literally tail-naked, and hence wholly naked. If this etymology be true the preferable form is stark-naked.
WordNet
adj. (used informally) completely unclothed [syn: bare-assed, bare-ass, in the altogether, in the buff, in the raw, raw, peeled, naked as a jaybird]
Usage examples of "stark naked".
It was a girlhe had known that, of course, from the toucha Farer, stark naked except for body-paint laid on in fanciful loops and spirals and her hair, which hung over her shoulders like a cloak.
She didn't want to step out of the shower, stark naked, and come face to face with him.
Indeed, on an earlier visit to the Tournelle's castle near Mondragon, where there was a slave for sale, she herself had seen their stark naked serving wenches, all pierced and chained, stepping delicately about on similarly lofty heels.
I rang a bell and two of the handsomest women belonging to the sailors entered stark naked, as I had ordered them to wait on the table.
As soon as he completed her description, there she stood, beside the road, white skin, red mouth, black hair and stark naked.
Except for the bracelets of copper wire at his wrists and a single string of beads around his waist, he was stark naked.
Jamie was on his hands and knees on the stoop-mouth open, stark naked.
I didn't have one out on the trail, bein' stark naked as I was, but Mr.
She was stark naked, hair falling loose past her breasts and down her back.
When we found him him and the Delaware was settin in the creek stark naked and they appeared at first to be drunk but on what none could surmise.