adj
Meaning 1
Causing surprise.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- A surprising number of people attended the rally.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
surprising
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /səˈpɹaɪzɪŋ/
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General-American: /sɚˈpɹaɪzɪŋ/
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/səˈpɹaɪzɪŋ/ General American, r-dissimilation
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rhymes with -aɪzɪŋ
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CMU ARPABET: S ER0 P R AY1 Z IH0 NG Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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noun
Meaning 2
A situation in which somebody is surprised.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
present participle and gerund of surprise
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 4
causing surprise or wonder or amazement
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the report shows a surprising lack of hard factual data
- leaped up with surprising agility
- she earned a surprising amount of money
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: unsurprising
History
Etymology
From surprise + -ing.
Across languages
Translations
47 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: զարմանալի (zarmanali) — that is or are a surprise
- Bashkir: ғәжәп (ğəjəp) — that is or are a surprise
- Bashkir: аптырарлыҡ (aptırarlıq) — that is or are a surprise
- Bashkir: иҫ киткес (iś kitkes) — that is or are a surprise
- Belarusian: дзі́ўны (dzíwny) — that is or are a surprise
- Bulgarian: изненадващ (iznenadvašt) — that is or are a surprise
- Bulgarian: неочакван (neočakvan) — that is or are a surprise
- Catalan: sorprenent — that is or are a surprise
- Dutch: verrassend — that is or are a surprise
- Esperanto: miriga — that is or are a surprise
- Estonian: üllatav — that is or are a surprise
- Finnish: yllättävä — that is or are a surprise
- French: surprenant — that is or are a surprise
- French: étonnant — that is or are a surprise
- French: surprenante — that is or are a surprise
- French: étonnante — that is or are a surprise
- Galician: sorprendente — that is or are a surprise
- German: überraschend — that is or are a surprise
- Greek: εκπληκτικός (ekpliktikós) — that is or are a surprise
- Hungarian: meglepő — that is or are a surprise
- Icelandic: á óvart — that is or are a surprise
- Irish: iontach — that is or are a surprise
- Old Irish: machdatae — that is or are a surprise
- Italian: sorprendente — that is or are a surprise
- Latvian: pārsteidzošs — that is or are a surprise
- Norman: surprannant — that is or are a surprise
- Norwegian Bokmål: overraskende — that is or are a surprise
- Persian: شگفتانگیز (šegeft-angiz) — that is or are a surprise
- Persian: تعجبآور (ta'ajjob-âvar) — that is or are a surprise
- Polish: cudowny — that is or are a surprise
- Portuguese: surpreendente — that is or are a surprise
- Romanian: surprinzător — that is or are a surprise
- Russian: удиви́тельный (udivítelʹnyj) — that is or are a surprise
- Russian: порази́тельный (porazítelʹnyj) — that is or are a surprise
- Russian: ди́вный (dívnyj) — that is or are a surprise
- Sanskrit: चित्र (citra) — that is or are a surprise
- Slovak: prekvapivý — that is or are a surprise
- Spanish: sorprendente — that is or are a surprise
- Spanish: sorpresivo — that is or are a surprise
- Swedish: överraskande — that is or are a surprise
- Turkish: şaşırtıcı — that is or are a surprise
- Turkish: ilginç — that is or are a surprise
- Ukrainian: ди́вний (dývnyj) — that is or are a surprise
- Walloon: saizixhant — that is or are a surprise
- Walloon: sbarant — that is or are a surprise
- Walloon: ewaerant — that is or are a surprise
- Welsh: syndodol — that is or are a surprise
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