Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- That startles or that excites sudden surprise, apprehension, fear, or like emotion; that rouses or suddenly and forcibly attracts attention: as, startling news; a startling discovery.
- Easily startled or alarmed; skittish; shying.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of startle.
- adj. Likely to startle; surprising; shocking.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. so remarkably different or sudden as to cause momentary shock or alarm
Examples
“The statistics were published as a second charity voiced concern over what it called "startling variations" in diagnosis and treatment outcomes in ovarian cancer.”
The Guardian: Bowel cancer rates on the rise, research charity warns
“Before Biro told me about his research into "La Bella Principessa," and what he described as startling findings, he shared with me the story of how he became the world's first authenticator of art works through fingerprinting-a story that began, curiously enough, with the very paintings I was staring at.”
“After Mount Holly Elementary School opened in August, Rock Hill school district parents with children at nearby Oakdale Elementary noticed what they call a startling change.”
“Even more startling is the fact that the reverses (tails) of these two are different; note that ‘ONE CENT’ is higher on one than on the other.”
“They have offered NO alternatives, have lied through their teeth at every opportunity, and their hypocrisy shows in startling contrast to the Democrats doing their best to turn around our disaster of a Health Care System.”
“The latest batch of confidential documents released by the Wikileaks anti-secrecy group do not contain startling information.”
Voice of America: WikiLeaks Documents Highlight Problem of Security Force Training
“Perhaps most startling is the discovery from the deciphering of the human genome that we have only between 20,000 and 25,000 genes.”
“They contain startling evidence of more than 1,300 incidents of torture, rape, abuse and murder by Iraqi security forces while the U.S. government looked the other way.”
The Huffington Post: Marjorie Cohn: Let's Rally to Restore Peace
“Both the documents and the detailed historical research that is now pouring out from this period all point to a growing realization that the implementation of the Council departed in startling ways from the intentions of the Council fathers.”
“There were skirts - but they were all polyester crepey things in startling colors, with art-deco prints.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘startling’.
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This intriguing novel .... is a taut,...
Crimes committed by book reviewers. Terms here are culled shamelessly from a recent New York Times blog post, and the comments that it generated.
Seven Deadly Sins
See a...poignant, compelling, taut, lyrical, spare, eschew, limn, craft, nuanced, contrived, majestic, subtle and 52 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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adjectives
sartorial, saucy, wieldy, wuthering, dilapidated, rough-and-ready, flabbergasted, ravishing, seminal, snooty, galore, scrumptious and 386 more...
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Day Day Up
spurn, underscore, bode, anecdotal, phenomenal, straddle, epic, redux, unspool, rhetoric, censor, savvy and 38 more...
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ramit's Words
eradicate, disproportionate, fiduciary, meteoric, superlative, affluent, peril, prosodic, acknowledge, pejorative, impervious, dwarfed and 32 more...
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The Inside Jokes
I and a select group of friends find these funny. Quite often it is a different friend each time.
octogenarian, schools of thought, yurt, zmay, jumbuck, stout old ladies, domkop, axolotl, citoyen, pertain, startling, enthralling and 52 more...
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Series
aerate, berate, cerate, derate, amble, cramble, hamble, ramble, scramble, wamble, lilaceous, limaceous and 62 more...
Tweets
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mollusque Sparkling is another. Apr 26, 2008
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oroboros What common 9-letter word in the English language is still a word when each of the nine letters is removed one by one? (I'll bet there are more). L,T,A,R,T,G,S,N = I Apr 17, 2008