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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Stark Stark, adv. Wholly; entirely; absolutely; quite; as, stark mind. --Shak. Held him strangled in his arms till he was stark dead. --Fuller. Stark naked, wholly naked; quite bare. Strip your sword stark naked. --Shak. 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Someone who is stark naked is completely naked. All contestants competed stark naked. ADJ: ADJ after v, v-link ADJ [emphasis]

Moby Thesaurus

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