Definitions for starker

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starker Star·ker

Spelling: [shtahr-ker]

IPA: /ˈʃtɑr kər/

Starker is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 190 anagrams from letters in starker (aekrrst).

Definitions for starker

noun

1. Janos [yah-nawsh] /ˈyɑ nɔʃ/ (Show IPA), 1924–2013, U.S. cellist, born in Hungary.

adverb

1. utterly, absolutely, or quite:
2. Chiefly Scot. and North England. in a stark manner; stoutly or vigorously.

adjective

1. sheer, utter, downright, or complete:
2. harsh, grim, or desolate, as a view, place, etc.:
3. extremely simple or severe:
4. bluntly or sternly plain; not softened or glamorized:
5. stiff or rigid in substance, muscles, etc.
6. rigid in death.
7. Archaic. strong; powerful; massive or robust.

Origin of starker

before 900; (adj.) Middle English; Old English stearc stiff, firm; cognate with German stark strong; akin to Old Norse sterkr strong; akin to starch, Examples for starker

Violet's connection with Starker's ceased on the day of her marriage.

And she had kept her job at Starker's, and meant to keep it for another year or so.

The contrast with those entrusted with the campaign could not have been Starker.

And we saw it this week in Starker relief than we usually do.

She had got another situation at Starker's, in the millinery department.

It was a bold, more overt, Starker sense of humor level than they have had in the past.

The difference in approach has become all the Starker as the financial crisis bites in the U.S.

He had a right to hang about Starker's, for he knew Miss Usher now.

On Monday he refrained from hanging round the door in Starker's iron shutter.

"There couldn't be a Starker contrast," Axelrod said, slamming what he called Romney's "backwards-looking" approach.