starkest
SaySTARK-istUS/ˈstɑɹkɪst/UK/ˈstɑːkɪst/
- 1Superlative of stark.
The report laid out the starkest warning yet about rising sea levels.
Of all the photographs, the starkest showed an empty, ruined city.
Note
A short adjective like stark normally takes the suffix -est for its top degree, so starkest is the usual form and most stark the less common one. The superlative mostly serves the living meanings: most severe, as with weather or a warning, and most plain or desolate, as with a ruined landscape. The obsolete 'hard, firm' sense and the archaic, poetic 'strong' sense belong to older writing.
starkest is a form of stark
stark, adjective: Plainly evident and impossible to overlook, and harsh, with nothing to soften it. Full entry
- Spelling
- stark → starkest: add -est
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