stark：释义

Bare or blunt: "His language has become increasingly stark, to the point of sounding strident” ( Robert Pear).

Complete or utter; extreme: stark poverty; a stark contrast.

Harsh; grim: "faced with that stark future” ( Robert C. McFarlane). "[They] found it hard to accept such a stark portrait of unrelieved failure” ( W. Bruce Lincoln).

Utterly; entirely: stark raving mad.