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Stark is a related term of simple.

As a proper noun stark

is .

As an adjective simple is

uncomplicated; taken by itself, with nothing added.

As a noun simple is

(medicine) a preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant.

As a verb simple is

(transitive|intransitive|archaic) to gather simples, ie, medicinal herbs.

stark

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) stark, starc, from (etyl) stearc, . Related to (l). Modifying naked , an alternation of original .

Adjective

(er)

(obsolete) Hard, firm; obdurate.

Severe; violent; fierce (now usually in describing the weather).

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, date=2013-05-11, volume=407, issue=8835, page=80 , magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest . It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.}}

(rare) Strong; vigorous; powerful.

* Sir Walter Scott

a stark , moss-trooping Scot

* Beaumont and Fletcher

Stark beer, boy, stout and strong beer.

Stiff, rigid.

* Spenser

Whose senses all were straight benumbed and stark .

* Shakespeare

Many a nobleman lies stark and stiff / Under the hoofs of vaunting enemies.

* Ben Jonson

The north is not so stark and cold.

Hard in appearance; barren, desolate.

I picked my way forlornly through the stark , sharp rocks.

Complete, absolute, full.

I screamed in stark terror.

A flower was growing, in stark contrast, out of the sidewalk.

* Ben Jonson

Consider the stark security / The common wealth is in now.

* Collier

He pronounces the citation stark nonsense.

* Selden

Rhetoric is very good or stark naught; there's no medium in rhetoric.

Derived terms

* (l)

Adverb

(-)

starkly; entirely, absolutely

He's gone stark , staring mad.

She was just standing there, stark naked.

* Fuller

held him strangled in his arms till he was stark dead.

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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 .

Etymology 2

From (etyl) starken, from (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete, or, dialect) To stiffen.

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simple

English

Adjective

(er)

Uncomplicated; taken by itself, with nothing added.

*:“[…] We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic?”

*2001 , Sydney I. Landau, Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography , Cambridge University Press (ISBN 0-521-78512-X), page 167,

*:There is no simple way to define precisely a complex arrangement of parts, however homely the object may appear to be.

Without ornamentation; plain.

Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward.

* (ca.1576-1634)

*:Full many fine men go upon my score, as simple as I stand here, and I trust them.

*(Lord Byron) (1788-1824)

*:Must thou trust Tradition's simple tongue?

*(Ralph Waldo Emerson) (1803-1882)

*:To be simple is to be great.

Undistinguished in social condition; of no special rank.

Trivial; insignificant.

*1485 , (Thomas Malory), (w, Le Morte d'Arthur) , Book X:

*:‘That was a symple cause,’ seyde Sir Trystram, ‘for to sle a good knyght for seyynge well by his maystir.’

Feeble-minded; foolish.

Structurally uncomplicated.

#(lb) Consisting of one single substance; uncompounded.

#(lb) Of a group: having no normal subgroup.

#(lb) Not compound, but possibly lobed.

#(lb) Consisting of a single individual or zooid; not compound.

#(lb) Homogenous.

(lb) Mere; not other than; being only.

*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

*:A medicinewhose simple touch / Is powerful to araise King Pepin.

Synonyms

* (consisting of a single part or aspect) onefold * (having few parts or features) plain * See also

Antonyms

* (having few parts or features) complex, compound, complicated * (uncomplicated) subtle

Derived terms

* fee simple * future simple * oversimple * past simple * plain and simple * present simple * pure and simple * simple beam * simple connectivity * simple contract * simple dislocation * simple equation * simple extension * simple eye * simple fraction * simple fracture * simple fruit * simple function * simple future * simple group * simple harmonic motion * simple-hearted * simple interest * simple leaf * simple linear regression * simple machine * simple mastectomy * simple microscope * simple-minded * simple past * simple pendulum * simple pistil * simple pole * simple present * simple protein * simple regression * simple sentence * Simple Simon * simple sugar * simple syrup * simple time * simple trust * simplehead * simpleness * simpless * simplex * simply * single * simplicity * simpleton

Noun

(en noun)

(medicine) A preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant.

*, II.37:

*:I know there are some simples , which in operation are moistening and some drying.

*Sir W. Temple

*:What virtue is in this remedy lies in the naked simple itself as it comes over from the Indies.

(obsolete) A term for a physician, derived from the medicinal term above.

(logic) A simple or atomic proposition.

(obsolete) Something not mixed or compounded.

*Shakespeare

*:compounded of many simples

(weaving) A drawloom.

(weaving) Part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom.

(Roman Catholic) A feast which is not a double or a semidouble.

Verb

(simpl)

(transitive, intransitive, archaic) To gather simples, ie, medicinal herbs.

Derived terms

* simpler * simplist * simplify

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