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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

stark naked
    adj 1: (used informally) completely unclothed [syn: bare-
           assed, bare-ass, in the altogether, in the buff,
           in the raw, raw, peeled, naked as a jaybird,
           stark naked]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Stark \Stark\ (st[aum]rk), adv.
   Wholly; entirely; absolutely; quite; as, stark mad. --Shak.
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         Held him strangled in his arms till he was stark dead.
                                                  --Fuller.
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   Stark naked, wholly naked; quite bare.
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            Strip your sword stark naked.         --Shak.
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   Note: According to Professor Skeat, "stark-naked" is derived
         from steort-naked, or start-naked, literally
         tail-naked, and hence wholly naked. If this etymology
         be true the preferable form is stark-naked.
         [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for stark naked:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

bald, bare, bare-ass, gymnosophical, in native buff, in puris naturalibus, in the altogether, in the buff, in the raw, naked, naturistic, nude, nudist, peeled, raw, stripped, unclad, unclothed, undressed, with nothing on, without a stitch

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