English Dictionary

stark

IPA（発音記号）

/stɑɹk/

形容詞

廃用 古語 文語 詩語

(obsolete) Hard, firm; obdurate. / Severe; violent; fierce (now usually in describing the weather). / (poetic, literary or archaic) Strong; vigorous; powerful. / Stiff, rigid.

日本語の意味

堅固で動じない、頑固な / 厳しく激しい（特に天候に用いられる場合） / 力強く、強力な / 硬直している、堅い

After days of drying, the clay pot had become stark and could no longer be reshaped.

何日も乾燥させた後、その土器は硬くなり、もはや成形し直すことができなかった。

意味（1）

(obsolete) Hard, firm; obdurate.

意味（2）

Severe; violent; fierce (now usually in describing the weather).

Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.

意味（3）

(poetic, literary or archaic) Strong; vigorous; powerful.

a stark, moss-trooping Scot

意味（4）

Stiff, rigid.

His heauie head, deuoide of carefull carke, / Whose sences all were straight benumbd and starke.

意味（5）

Plain in appearance; barren, desolate.

I picked my way forlornly through the stark, sharp rocks.

意味（6）

Naked.

They bore me to a cavern in the hill Beneath that column, and unbound me there; And one did strip me stark; and one did fill A vessel from the putrid pool; one bare A lighted torch, and four with friendless care Guided my steps the cavern-paths along […]

意味（7）

Complete, absolute, full.

I screamed in stark terror.

starker （ comparative ）

starkest （ superlative ）