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1stark staring mad — ► stark raving (or staring) mad informal completely mad. Main Entry: ↑stark …
2stark raving (or staring) mad — informal completely mad. → stark …
3staring mad — stark raving/staring/mad informal phrase completely crazy Thesaurus: crazy or sillysynonym Main entry: stark …
4stark raving mad — ► stark raving (or staring) mad informal completely mad. Main Entry: ↑stark …
5stark raving mad — stark raving/staring/mad informal phrase completely crazy Thesaurus: crazy or sillysynonym Main entry: stark * * * …
6stark — ► ADJECTIVE 1) severe or bare in appearance. 2) unpleasantly or sharply clear. 3) complete; sheer: stark terror. ● stark naked Cf. ↑stark naked ● stark raving (or staring) mad Cf. ↑ …
7mad — Synonyms and related words: Dionysiac, a transient madness, abandoned, abnormal, absurd, accident prone, acrimonious, affronted, amok, anarchic, anger, angered, angriness, angry, apish, ardent, ardently, asinine, avid, bacchic, balmy, bananas,… …
8stark — stark1 [sta:k US sta:rk] adj [: Old English; Origin: stearc stiff, strong ] 1.) very plain in appearance, with little or no colour or decoration ▪ In the cold dawn light, the castle looked stark and forbidding. ▪ the stark beauty of New Mexico… …
9stark — 1 adjective 1 very simple and severe in appearance: In the cold dawn light the castle looked stark and forbidding. | the stark beauty of the New Mexico desert 2 unpleasantly clear and impossible to avoid; harsh: stark reality: The film shows the… …
10staring — adjective 1. (used of eyes) open and fixed as if in fear or wonder staring eyes • Syn: ↑agaze • Similar to: ↑open, ↑opened 2. without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers an arrant fool …
