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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 unclothedplay

  Familiarity information: STARK NAKED used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


STARK NAKED (adjective)


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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