Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Stark \Stark\, adv.
   Wholly; entirely; absolutely; quite; as, stark mind. --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.

Stark \Stark\, a. [Compar. {Starker}; 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.]
   1. 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.   --B. Jonson.

   2. Complete; absolute; full; perfect; entire. [Obs.]

            Consider the stark security The common wealth is in
            now.                                  --B. Jonson.

   3. Strong; vigorous; powerful.

            A stark, moss-trooping Scot.          --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.

            Stark beer, boy, stout and strong beer. --Beau. &
                                                  Fl.

   4. Severe; violent; fierce. [Obs.] ``In starke stours.'' [i.
      e., in fierce combats]. --Chaucer.

   5. 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.

Stark \Stark\, v. t.
   To stiffen. [R.]

         If horror have not starked your limbs.   --H. Taylor.

Source : WordNet®

stark
     adj 1: devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment; "the
            blunt truth"; "the crude facts"; "facing the stark
            reality of the deadline" [syn: {blunt}, {crude(a)}, {stark(a)}]
     2: severely simple; "a stark interior" [syn: {austere}, {severe}]
     3: complete or extreme; "stark poverty"; "a stark contrast"
     4: without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative)
        intensifiers; "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a
        consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross
        negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a
        sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing
        villain"; "utter nonsense" [syn: {arrant(a)}, {complete(a)},
         {consummate(a)}, {double-dyed(a)}, {everlasting(a)}, {gross(a)},
         {perfect(a)}, {pure(a)}, {sodding(a)}, {stark(a)}, {staring(a)},
         {thoroughgoing(a)}, {utter(a)}]
     5: 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" [syn: {bare}, {barren}, {bleak}, {desolate}]

stark
     adv : completely; "stark mad"; "mouth stark open"