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SURPRISING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Causing surprise or wonder or amazement
Example:
she earned a surprising amount of money
Classified under:
Similar:
amazing; astonishing (surprising greatly)
startling (so remarkably different or sudden as to cause momentary shock or alarm)
stunning (causing great astonishment and consternation)
Also:
unexpected (not expected or anticipated)
Antonym:
unsurprising (not causing surprise)
Derivation:
surprisingness (extraordinariness by virtue of being unexpected)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb surprise
Context examples:
The approach now, is one of the finest things in the country: you see the house in the most surprising manner.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
This surprising result was obtained using ESO’s Very Large Telescope and suggests that dark matter was less influential in the early Universe than it is today.
(Dark Matter Less Influential in Galaxies in Early Universe, ESO)
When the researchers changed only the amount of GAGs these native valve cells were exposed to, while keeping all other conditions the same, they observed surprising results that challenged previous assumptions.
(New Hope for Stopping An Understudied Heart Disease in Its Tracks, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
A global ocean would be surprising, said Tajeddine, as the surface of Mimas does not display signs of geologic activity.
(Saturn Moon May Hide a 'Fossil' Core or an Ocean, NASA)
This surprising discovery contradicts previous studies of other eye diseases suggesting that the complement system worsens retinal degeneration.
(Immune system can slow degenerative eye disease, National Institutes of Health)
With so much going on with Capricorn planets, it is surprising that Mars will be unusually quiet and tucked away in your twelfth house of solitude.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered surprising new clues about a hefty, rapidly aging star whose behavior has never been seen before in our Milky Way galaxy.
(Hubble Observes One-of-a-Kind Star Nicknamed 'Nasty', NASA)
The Earth formed in the 'dry' inner solar system, and so it is somewhat surprising that there is water on Earth.
(Moon’s Formation Brought Water to Earth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Finding the organohalogen Freon-40 near these young, Sun-like stars was surprising.
(ALMA and Rosetta Detect Freon-40 in Space, ESO)
In this new finding, in addition to the surprising discovery of over 300 eggs, an unprecedented 16 embryos with preserved eggs in three dimensions were unearthed.
(Brazil and China scientists unearth pterosaur eggs with preserved embryos, Agência Brasil)
