stark naked
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- idiom
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- Then he realizes he is stark naked.
- stood stark naked
- walked stark naked
- sit stark naked
And even if you are stark naked outside at midday in the middle of winter, your skin still can't make enough vitamin D as the sunlight is too weak.
- And even if you are stark naked outside at midday in the middle of winter, your skin still can't make enough vitamin D as the sunlight is too weak.
- Yeah, selfie video one Donnie just sat in the middle just completely naked, just plain stark naked.
- There you are stark naked and you are you're bad.
Examples
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We've all experienced those painful dreams in which we suddenly discover we are stark naked in the middle of the high street.
Fiction book (1992) -
Jacob, stark naked and covered with goose bumps, runs his hands under a shower spray.
Fiction book (1990) -
Anyway, I get off early one day, get home, and... there he is, stark naked in our bed.
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I'm just sitting here stark naked as the day I was born.
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I'm standing stark naked in front of Queen Elizabeth.
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Finally, I proved to her I needed one by marching stark naked into the kitchen one morning where she sat drinking coffee.
Fiction book (1991) -
The sound of the trumpets died away, and Orlando stood stark naked.
Academic text (2003) -
He was stark naked.
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Suddenly, Sonya d'Medved was standing between them, still stark naked, golden hair spilling down her back.
Fiction book (2002) -
When he woke up, he was stark naked, which was not the way he usually slept.
Synonyms
982
1.0
Not wearing any clothes on the body
89
3.7
Not wearing any clothes
20
8.5
Completely without clothes
6
9.3
Not wearing any clothes
4
3.7
Not wearing any clothes
2
9.6
Completely without clothes with the bottom showing
2
9.9
Completely without clothes
2
9.5
Having no clothes on
2
9.0
Not wearing any clothes
1
7.5
Not wearing any clothes
Not wearing any clothes
A person who has no clothes on
Not wearing any clothes
Not wearing any clothes
Not wearing any clothes
Not wearing any clothes
A person who has no clothes on
Completely without clothes on
Not wearing clothes on a part of the body
Not covered by clothes and showing skin
A person who is not wearing any clothes
Wearing little or no clothing
Completely without clothes, as when someone is born
Completely without clothes like at birth
Antonyms
How Naked
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase combines an intensifying adjective 'stark' (extreme/absolute) with 'naked' (without clothes), so a learner who knows both words will readily infer 'completely unclothed'. This intensifier+adjective composition is a regular, cross-linguistically common pattern in English, making the meaning transparently derivable from its parts.
Etymology
The phrase stark naked comes from an older use of stark meaning 'complete' or 'strong', so putting stark before naked creates the picture of someone with no clothes at all. That's why it means 'completely without clothes' today.