Starker

[ shtahr-ker ]

/ ˈʃtɑr kər /

Save This Word!

noun

Ja·nos

[yah-nawsh], /ˈyɑ nɔʃ/, 1924–2013, U.S. cellist, born in Hungary.

QUIZ

WILL YOU SAIL OR STUMBLE ON THESE GRAMMAR QUESTIONS?

Smoothly step over to these common grammar mistakes that trip many people up. Good luck!

Question 1 of 7

Fill in the blank: I can’t figure out _____ gave me this gift.

Words nearby Starker

It was a bold, more overt, starker sense of humor level than they have had in the past.
Oscars Host Neil Patrick Harris on His Best and Worst Emcee Moments (VIDEO)|Neil Patrick Harris|October 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
And we saw it this week in starker relief than we usually do.
A Most Revealing Week for Republicans|Michael Tomasky|April 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The contrast with those entrusted with the campaign could not have been starker.
Obama’s 2012 Campaign Prepped for Disaster. Obamacare Didn’t.|Lloyd Green|October 23, 2013|DAILY BEAST
"There couldn't be a starker contrast," Axelrod said, slamming what he called Romney's "backwards-looking" approach.
Democrats Hit Romney on Marriage|Howard Kurtz|May 7, 2012|DAILY BEAST

The difference in approach has become all the starker as the financial crisis bites in the U.S.
Russians Win the Space Race|Owen Matthews, Anna Nemtsova|July 8, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Wo viel Licht ist, ist starker Schatten—The shadow is deeper where the light is strong.
Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources|James Wood
Is it that in their thoroughgoing way they strip starker than any, where all go as naked as my Canadian friend declared?
Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front|E. W. Hornung
Whenever he turns from the starker lusts to the pale passions of man under civilization, Conrad fails.
A Book of Prefaces|H. L. Mencken
Cardinal numerals, used substantively, are also followed by the genitive: zweinzec starker man, twenty strong men.
A Middle High German Primer|Joseph Wright
After six weeks of it she began to long secretly for Starker's Millinery Saloons.
The Combined Maze|May Sinclair