Crossword clues for starkest
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stark \Stark\ (st[aum]rk), a. [Compar. Starker (-[~e]r); superl. Starkest.] [OE. stark stiff, strong, AS. stearc; akin to OS. starc strong, D. sterk, OHG. starc, starah, G. & Sw. stark, Dan. st[ae]rk, Icel. sterkr, Goth. gasta['u]rknan to become dried up, Lith. str["e]gti to stiffen, to freeze. Cf. Starch, a. & n.]
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Stiff; rigid.
--Chaucer.Whose senses all were straight benumbed and stark.
--Spenser.His heart gan wax as stark as marble stone.
--Spenser.Many a nobleman lies stark and stiff Under the hoofs of vaunting enemies.
--Shak.The north is not so stark and cold.
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Complete; absolute; full; perfect; entire. [Obs.]
Consider the stark security The common wealth is in now.
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Strong; vigorous; powerful.
A stark, moss-trooping Scot.
--Sir W. Scott.Stark beer, boy, stout and strong beer.
--Beau. & Fl. Severe; violent; fierce. [Obs.] ``In starke stours'' [i. e., in fierce combats].
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Mere; sheer; gross; entire; downright.
He pronounces the citation stark nonsense.
--Collier.Rhetoric is very good or stark naught; there's no medium in rhetoric.
--Selden.
Wiktionary
a. (en-superlative of: stark)
Usage examples of "starkest".
Pyanfar shoved her arm into the brace and gulped air in starkest panic.
Hilfy's ears had gone flat when she saw what was toward, and there had been starkest horror in her eyes, which the kif might well have attributed to seeing herself shunted aside for a kifish escort-correct.
It seemed to him perfectly natural that a father should introduce his lone son to the idea that existence tends to be nourished from below, from the fear level, the plane of obsession, the starkest tract of awareness.