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Definition of Stark naked
1. Adjective. (used informally) completely unclothed.
Language type: Colloquialism
Similar to: Unclothed
Definition of Stark naked
1. Adjective. Completely unclothed. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stark Naked
Literary usage of Stark naked
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"Also stark, adv.,, STARK-NAKED, quite naked. (E.) In Tw. Nt. iii. 4. -;<.
This phrase is doubtless now used as ... On the sb. start, see under Stark-naked. ..."
2. Letters of Certain Jews to Monsieur Voltaire: Containing an Apology for by Antoine Guénée (1848)
"You may still go on in amazement, that Isaiah walked " stark naked " in ...
Tindal asserted likewise that David had danced " stark naked " before the ark; ..."
3. The Diary of William Bentley: Pastor of the East Church, Salem, Massachusetts by William Bentley, Joseph Gilbert Waters, Marguerite Dalrymple, Alice G. Waters, Essex Institute (1914)
"He is the author of the View of the past Century. is stark naked. A sister of
small income gives her the rent of the tenement in which she lives & she ..."