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STARK NAKED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does stark naked mean?
• STARK NAKED (adjective)
The adjective STARK NAKED has 1 sense:
1. (used informally) completely unclothed
Familiarity information: STARK NAKED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(used informally) completely unclothed
Synonyms:
bare-ass; bare-assed; in the altogether; in the buff; in the raw; naked as a jaybird; peeled; raw; stark naked
Similar:
unclothed (not wearing clothing)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
Context examples
They were stark naked, men, women, and children, round a fire, as I could discover by the smoke.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
He consented, and I immediately stripped myself stark naked, and went down softly into the stream.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
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