What does surprising mean?

Definitions for surprising
sərˈpraɪ zɪŋ, sə-sur·pris·ing

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word surprising.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. surprisingadjective

    causing surprise or wonder or amazement

    "the report shows a surprising lack of hard factual data"; "leaped up with surprising agility"; "she earned a surprising amount of money"

Wiktionary

  1. surprisingnoun

    The action of the verb to surprise.

  2. surprisingadjective

    That is or are a surprise.

    A surprising number of people attended the rally.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Surprisingparticipial adj.

    Wonderful; raising sudden wonder or concern.

    Etymology: from surprise.

    The greatest actions of a celebrated person, however surprising and extraordinary, are no more than what are expected from him. Joseph Addison, Spectator.

ChatGPT

  1. surprising

    Surprising refers to something unexpected, unusual, or startling that caught someone off guard. It can refer to an event, action, outcome, or piece of information that does not align with what was previously believed or predicted, thereby provoking a sense of astonishment or wonder.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Surprising

    of Surprise

  2. Surprisingadjective

    exciting surprise; extraordinary; of a nature to excite wonder and astonishment; as, surprising bravery; a surprising escape from danger

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'surprising' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2875

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'surprising' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3427

  3. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'surprising' in Adjectives Frequency: #388

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of surprising in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of surprising in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of surprising in a Sentence

  1. Bill Loveless:

    It’s not that surprising when you think of it, the oil producers have been pushing hard on this for several years now, and the push has gotten greater as the production from the shale formations has increased.

  2. Alan Gow:

    When we look at the association between complexity of work with people or data, we see that those in more complex jobs generally do better on a range of cognitive ability measures, that’s not necessarily surprising . . . but we were able to add an interesting twist.

  3. Ramon Llamas:

    It was a little surprising to see Apple Watches reach for the alarmist approach and position their devices as potential life savers.

  4. Alex Francoeur:

    Cervical cancer is incredibly preventable with proper screening as well as access to vaccinations for the HPV virus, and so, to me, these findings were very surprising because I would have expected with the expansion of the Affordable Care Act and more and more women getting health insurance to see kind of the opposite findings of more people being able to get screened.

  5. John Schneider:

    A little bit surprising, but the rules are the rules. Kansas City Royals live by them and the rest of the league lives by them, definitely not a series you’re going to take lightly going into the break. You kind of see who they have, you game plan accordingly, and hopefully build off this two-game series( sweep) against the Phillies.

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