Meanings (ES + gloss)
crudo • duro • fuerte • grave • severo
Severe; violent; fierce (now usually in describing the weather).
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 ab…
rígido
Stiff, rigid.
His heauie head, deuoide of carefull carke, / Whose sences all were straight benumbd and starke.
Many a nobleman lies stark and stiff / Under the hoofs of vaunting enemies.
descarnado
Plain in appearance; barren, desolate.
I picked my way forlornly through the stark, sharp rocks.
I would have to remind her, counteringly, that you don’t pick the person who fronts your life—you get picked, you watch the picker’s ankles vanish into the scrunched socks afterwar…
absoluto • completo • drástico • escueto
Complete, absolute, full.
A flower was growing, in stark contrast, out of the sidewalk.
I screamed in stark terror.