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5-letter words (5 found)

KARST,KARTS,SKART,STARK,STRAK,

4-letter words (14 found)

ARKS,ARTS,KART,KATS,KSAR,RAST,RATS,SARK,SKAT,STAR,TAKS,TARS,TASK,TSAR,

3-letter words (16 found)

ARK,ARS,ART,ASK,ATS,KAS,KAT,RAS,RAT,SAR,SAT,SKA,TAK,TAR,TAS,TSK,

2-letter words (6 found)

AR,AS,AT,KA,ST,TA,

You can make 41 words from stark according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of stark

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Definitions and meaning of stark

stark

Pronunciation

  • (General American) enPR: stärk, IPA(key): /stɑɹk/
  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: stärk, IPA(key): /stɑːk/
  • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k
  • Homophone: stock (non-rhotic with father-bother merger)

Etymology 1

From Middle English stark, starc, from Old English stearc, starc (“stiff, rigid, unyielding, obstinate, hard, strong, severe, violent”), from Proto-West Germanic *stark, from Proto-Germanic *starkuz (“stiff, strong”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)terg- (“rigid, stiff”).

Cognate with Saterland Frisian sterc (“strong”), Dutch sterk (“strong”), Low German sterk (“strong”), German stark (“strong”), Danish stærk (“strong”), Swedish stark (“strong”), Norwegian sterk (“strong”), Icelandic sterkur (“strong”). Related to starch.

In the phrase stark naked: an alternation of Middle English stert naked, from stert (“tail”), a literal parallel to the modern butt naked.

Adjective

stark (comparative starker, superlative starkest)

  1. (obsolete) Hard, firm; obdurate.
  2. Severe; violent; fierce (now usually in describing the weather).
  3. (poetic, literary or archaic) Strong; vigorous; powerful.
  4. Stiff, rigid.
  5. Plain in appearance; barren, desolate.
  6. Naked.
  7. Complete, absolute, full.
    • 1689 (first published posthumously), John Selden, Table-Talk
      Rhetoric is very good or stark naught; there's no medium in rhetoric.
Derived terms
  • starken
  • starkly
  • starkness
Translations

Adverb

stark (not comparable)

  1. starkly; entirely, absolutely
Usage notes

In standard modern English, the adverb is essentially restricted to stark naked and phrases meaning "crazy" on the pattern of stark raving mad.

Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English starken, from Old English stearcian (“to stiffen, become hard, grow stiff or hard”), from Proto-Germanic *starkōną, *starkēną (“to stiffen, become hard”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)terg- (“rigid, stiff”). Cognate with German erstarken (“to strengthen”).

Verb

stark (third-person singular simple present starks, present participle starking, simple past and past participle starked)

  1. (obsolete or dialect) To stiffen.
Related terms
  • starkish
  • starkly
  • starkers

Anagrams

  • Karst, Trask, karst, karts, skart

German

Etymology

From Middle High German stark, from Old High German stark, from Proto-West Germanic *stark.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃtark/, [ʃtaʁk], [ʃtaɐ̯k], [ʃtaːk]
  • Homophone: stak (some speakers)

Adjective

stark (strong nominative masculine singular starker, comparative stärker, superlative am stärksten)

  1. strong (intense, powerful, unyielding)
  2. strong (having a high concentration of some ingredient, e.g. alcohol)
    Coordinate terms: gemischt, schwach
  3. (of an action, especially sports) good, great, skilled
  4. (colloquial, slightly dated) brilliant, awesome
  5. (colloquial, dated) incredible, unbelievable
    ein starkes Stück ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    starker Tobak ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
  6. (dated, euphemistic) overweight, fat
  7. (grammar) strong (inflecting according to a pattern distinct from another called "weak")

Declension

Derived terms

  • affenstark

Further reading

  • “stark” in Duden online
  • “stark” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • Friedrich Kluge (1883) “stark”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

Kashubian

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *starъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈstark/
  • Syllabification: stark

Noun

stark m pers (female equivalent starka)

  1. grandfather
    Synonyms: dżadek, ópa

Declension

Further reading

  • “stark”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022
  • Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “dziadek”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎[3]

Low German

Etymology

Cognate with German stark, Dutch sterk.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /stark/, /staːk/

Adjective

stark (comparative starker, superlative starkst)

  1. strong, powerful

Declension

Synonyms

  • dull
  • heftig
  • hevig
  • ossig
  • slimm
  • stevig
  • dannig
  • düchtig
  • swied

Derived terms

  • Starkde/Stärkde

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *starkuz, whence also Old English stearc, Old Norse sterkr.

Adjective

stark

  1. strong

Derived terms

  • starchī

Descendants

  • German: stark
  • Yiddish: שטאַרק (shtark)

Slovene

Noun

stark

  1. genitive dual/plural of starka

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish starker, from Old Norse starkr, from Proto-Germanic *starkuz, from Proto-Indo-European *sterg-.

Pronunciation

Adjective

stark (comparative starkare, superlative starkast)

  1. strong; able to use great force
  2. strong; capable of withstanding great (physical) force
  3. strong; highly stimulating to the senses
  4. (of food) spicy, hot
  5. strong; having a high concentration of an essential; possibly alcohol
  6. (grammar) strong
  7. (military) strong; not easily subdued or taken

Declension

Synonyms

  • (able to use great force): kraftfull
  • (capable of withstanding force): stadig
  • (spicy): het
  • (having intense odor or flavor): frän, skarp, stickande

Related terms

  • styrka
  • stärka
  • styrkelyft
  • starkt verb, stark böjning
  • stor stark

See also

  • oregelbundet verb

References

  • stark in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • stark in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • stark in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

  • raskt

Source: wiktionary.org