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Surprising

//səˈpɹaɪzɪŋ// adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Causing surprise.

    "A surprising number of people attended the rally."

Adjective
  1. 1
    causing surprise or wonder or amazement wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A situation in which somebody is surprised.

    "But the comments of most of these novelists are the record of their continual surprisings by the varieties of moral and aesthetic truths."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of surprise form-of, gerund, participle, present

Etymology

Etymology 1

From surprise + -ing.

Etymology 2

From surprise + -ing.

Etymology 3

From surprise + -ing.

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