different between stark vs simple
stark
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) enPR: stärk, IPA(key): /st??k/
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: stärk, IPA(key): /st??k/
- Rhymes: -??(r)k
Etymology 1
From Middle English stark, starc, from Old English stearc, starc (“stiff, obstinate, severe, etc.”), from Proto-Germanic *starkaz, *starkuz (“stiff, strong”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)terg- (“rigid, stiff”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian sterc (“strong”), Dutch sterk (“strong”), Low German sterk (“strong”), German stark (“strong”), Danish stærk (“strong”), Swedish stark (“strong”), Norwegian sterk (“strong”), Icelandic sterkur (“strong”). Related to starch.
In the phrase stark naked: an alternation of start ("tail" or "rump"), a literal parallel to the modern butt naked.
Adjective
stark (comparative starker, superlative starkest)
- (obsolete) Hard, firm; obdurate.
- Severe; violent; fierce (now usually in describing the weather).
- (poetic, literary or archaic) Strong; vigorous; powerful.
- Stark beer, boy, stout and strong beer.
- Stiff, rigid.
- The north is not so stark and cold.
- Plain in appearance; barren, desolate.
- Complete, absolute, full.
- Consider, first, the stark security / The commonwealth is in now.
- 1689 (first published posthumously), John Selden, Table-Talk
- Rhetoric is very good or stark naught; there's no medium in rhetoric.
- Ramadans, and prolonged ham-squattings in cold, cheerless rooms were stark nonsense
Derived terms
- starken
Translations
Adverb
stark (not comparable)
- starkly; entirely, absolutely
- […] held him strangled in his arms till he was stark dead.
Usage notes
In standard modern English, the adverb is essentially restricted to stark naked and phrases meaning "crazy" on the pattern of stark raving mad.
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English starken, from Old English stearcian (“to stiffen, become hard, grow stiff or hard”), from Proto-Germanic *stark?n?, *stark?n? (“to stiffen, become hard”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)terg- (“rigid, stiff”). Cognate with German erstarken (“to strengthen”).
Verb
stark (third-person singular simple present starks, present participle starking, simple past and past participle starked)
- (obsolete or dialect) To stiffen.
Related terms
- starkish
- starkly
- starkers
Anagrams
- Karst, Trask, karst, karts, skart
German
Etymology
From Middle High German stark, from Old High German stark, from Proto-Germanic *starkuz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?tark/, [?ta?k], [?ta??k], [?ta?k]
Adjective
stark (comparative stärker, superlative am stärksten)
- strong (intense, powerful, unyielding)
- strong (having a high concentration of some ingredient, e.g. alcohol)
- (grammar) strong (inflecting according to a pattern distinct from another called "weak")
- (colloquial, slightly dated) great, brilliant, awesome
Declension
See also
(grammar): gemischt, schwach
Further reading
- “stark” in Duden online
- “stark” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- Friedrich Kluge (1883) , “stark”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
Kashubian
Etymology
Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *star?.
Noun
stark m
- grandfather
Related terms
- starka
Low German
Etymology
Cognate with German stark, Dutch sterk.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stark/, /sta?k/
Adjective
stark (comparative starker, superlative starkst)
- strong, powerful
Declension
Synonyms
- dull
- heftig
- hevig
- ossig
- slimm
- stevig
- dannig
- düchtig
- swied
Derived terms
- Starkde/Stärkde
Old High German
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *starkuz, whence also Old English stearc, Old Norse sterkr.
Adjective
stark
- strong
Derived terms
- starch?
Descendants
- German: stark
- Yiddish: ??????? (shtark)
Slovene
Noun
stark
- genitive dual/plural of starka
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish starker, from Old Norse starkr, from Proto-Germanic *starkuz, from Proto-Indo-European *sterg-.
Pronunciation
Adjective
stark (comparative starkare, superlative starkast)
- strong; able to use great force
- strong; capable of withstanding great physical force
- strong; highly stimulating to the senses
- starkt ljus
- strong light
- starkt ljus
- (taste) spicy, hot; with a biting taste
- Den maten är för stark för mig.
- That food is too hot for me.
- Den maten är för stark för mig.
- strong; having a high concentration of an essential; possibly alcohol
- starkt kaffe
- strong coffee
- starkt kaffe
- (grammar) strong
- (military) strong; not easily subdued or taken
Declension
Synonyms
- (able to use great force): kraftfull
- (capable of withstanding force): stadig
- (spicy): het
- (having intense odor or flavor): frän, skarp, stickande
Related terms
- styrka
- stärka
- styrkelyft
- starkt verb, stark böjning
See also
- oregelbundet verb
Anagrams
- raskt
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simple
English
Etymology
From Middle English symple, simple, from Old French and French simple, from Latin simplex (“simple”, literally “onefold”) (as opposed to duplex (“double”, literally “twofold”)), from semel (“the same”) + plic? (“I fold”). See same and fold. Compare single, singular, simultaneous, etc.
Partially displaced native English onefold.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s?mp?l/
- Rhymes: -?mp?l
- Hyphenation: sim?ple
Adjective
simple (comparative simpler or more simple, superlative simplest or most simple)
- Uncomplicated; taken by itself, with nothing added.
- 2001, Sydney I. Landau, Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography, Cambridge University Press ?ISBN, page 167,
- There is no simple way to define precisely a complex arrangement of parts, however homely the object may appear to be.
- 2001, Sydney I. Landau, Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography, Cambridge University Press ?ISBN, page 167,
- Without ornamentation; plain.
- Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward.
- 1605, John Marston, The Dutch Courtesan
- Full many fine men go upon my score, as simple as I stand here, and I trust them.
- 1838, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Literary Ethics - an Oration delivered before the Literary Societies of Dartmouth College, July 24, 1838
- To be simple is to be great.
- 1605, John Marston, The Dutch Courtesan
- Undistinguished in social condition; of no special rank.
- Antonym: gentle
- (now rare) Trivial; insignificant.
- 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, Book X:
- ‘That was a symple cause,’ seyde Sir Trystram, ‘for to sle a good knyght for seyynge well by his maystir.’
- 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, Book X:
- (now colloquial) Feeble-minded; foolish.
- (heading, technical) Structurally uncomplicated.
- (chemistry, pharmacology) Consisting of one single substance; uncompounded.
- (mathematics) Of a group: having no normal subgroup.
- (botany) Not compound, but possibly lobed.
- (of a steam engine) Using steam only once in its cylinders, in contrast to a compound engine, where steam is used more than once in high-pressure and low-pressure cylinders.
- 1959, Steam's Finest Hour, edited by David P. Morgan, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 6:
- 1959, Steam's Finest Hour, edited by David P. Morgan, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 6:
- (zoology) Consisting of a single individual or zooid; not compound.
- (mineralogy) Homogenous.
- (obsolete) Mere; not other than; being only.
Synonyms
- (consisting of a single part or aspect): onefold
- (having few parts or features): plain
- See also Thesaurus:easy and Thesaurus:bare-bones
Antonyms
- (having few parts or features): complex, compound, complicated
- (uncomplicated): subtle
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
simple (plural simples)
- (pharmacology) A herbal preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant.
- 2003, Dolores Stewart Riccio, Charmed Circle, Kensington Books (?ISBN), page 12:
- The venerable carryall, formerly brimming with all manner of esoteric pamphlets and witch's simples, now overflowed with a cascade of soft toys, juice bottles, tissues, linen books for infants, […]
- 2003, Dolores Stewart Riccio, Charmed Circle, Kensington Books (?ISBN), page 12:
- (obsolete, by extension) A physician.
- (logic) A simple or atomic proposition.
- (obsolete) Something not mixed or compounded.
- (weaving) A drawloom.
- (weaving) Part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom.
- (Roman Catholicism) A feast which is not a double or a semidouble.
Translations
Verb
simple (third-person singular simple present simples, present participle simpling, simple past and past participle simpled)
- (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To gather simples, i.e. medicinal herbs.
Derived terms
- simpler
- simplist
- simplify
Anagrams
- LEMSIP, impels
Asturian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin simplex.
Adjective
simple (epicene, plural simples)
- simple (uncomplicated)
Synonyms
- cenciellu
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin simplex.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /?sim.pl?/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /?sim.ple/
Adjective
simple (masculine and feminine plural simples)
- simple (uncomplicated)
- Synonym: senzill
- single (not divided into parts)
Derived terms
- fulla simple (“simple leaf”)
- simplement (“simply”)
Related terms
- símplex (“simplex”)
- simplicitat (“simplicity”)
- ximple
Further reading
- “simple” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “simple” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
- “simple” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
Chavacano
Etymology
From Spanish simple (“simple”).
Adjective
simple
- simple
Esperanto
Etymology
From simpla +? -e.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?simple/
- Hyphenation: sim?ple
Adverb
simple
- simply
French
Etymology
From Old French, borrowed from Latin simplex.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s??pl/
Adjective
simple (plural simples)
- single (multiplier)
- simple
- one-way
- mere
Usage notes
The second and third meanings are taken when the adjective is placed after the noun. The fourth meaning is taken when it is located before the noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Romanian: simplu
Noun
simple m (plural simples)
- one-way ticket
- (baseball) single
Related terms
Further reading
- “simple” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- emplis
Galician
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin simplex. Displaced Old Portuguese simplez.
Adjective
simple m or f (plural simples)
- simple
German
Adjective
simple
- inflection of simpel:
- strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
- strong nominative/accusative plural
- weak nominative all-gender singular
- weak accusative feminine/neuter singular
Latin
Adjective
simple
- vocative masculine singular of simplus
Middle English
Adjective
simple
- Alternative form of symple
Noun
simple
- Alternative form of symple
Norwegian Bokmål
Adjective
simple
- definite singular of simpel
- plural of simpel
Norwegian Nynorsk
Adjective
simple
- definite singular of simpel
- plural of simpel
Old French
Alternative forms
- sinple
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin simplex.
Adjective
simple m (oblique and nominative feminine singular simple)
- innocent
- mere; simple
- honest; without pretense
- peasant, pauper (attributive)
Descendants
- French: simple
- ? Romanian: simplu
- ? Middle English: symple, simple
- Scots: semple
- English: simple
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?sim.ple]
Adjective
simple
- feminine/neuter plural nominative/accusative of simplu
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin simplex.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?simple/, [?s?m.ple]
Adjective
simple (plural simples)
- simple (uncomplicated)
- Synonym: sencillo
- Antonym: complejo
- (before the noun) mere, ordinary
- Synonym: mero
- simple, single (not divided into parts)
- Antonym: compuesto
- simple-minded, stupid
- insipid, flavorless
- Synonym: soso
- (grammar) simple
Usage notes
A way to think of the difference between simple and sencillo, which both mean "simple" in English, is that the antonym of simple is complejo (“complex”), whereas the antonym of sencillo is complicado (“complicated”).
Derived terms
Descendants
- Chavacano: simple
Noun
simple m or f (plural simples)
- simpleton, fool
- (pharmacology, masculine only) simple
See also
- más simple que el mecanismo de un botijo
Further reading
- “simple” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
Swedish
Adjective
simple
- absolute definite natural masculine form of simpel.
Anagrams
- simpel
Tagalog
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish simple.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?simpl?/
Adjective
símple
- simple; plain
- Synonyms: payak, yano, liso
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