stark
意味
- 《名詞の前にのみ用いて》全くの,正真正銘の
- (景色・場所などが)荒れた,ものさびしい
- (気候が)きびしい
- (顔・態度が)こわばった,堅い
例文
My little brother ran through the living room stark naked.
弟が丸裸で居間を走ってった。
You ought to face the stark reality.
あなたは赤裸々な現実を直視すべきだ。
I'd like to go out stark naked in the middle of this typhoon.
この台風の中全裸で外に出てみたい。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
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.