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surprising

verb
/səˈpɹaɪzɪŋ/UK/sɚˈpɹaɪzɪŋ/US/səˈpɹaɪzɪŋ/

Etymology

From surprise + -ing.

  1. derived from prendere
  2. derived from super-
  3. derived from sorprendre
  4. derived from surprise
  5. inherited from surprise
  6. formed as surprising — “surprise + -ing”

Definitions

  1. present participle and gerund of surprise

  2. Causing surprise.

    • A surprising number of people attended the rally.
    • With this the second of three games in seven days for Stoke, it was hardly surprising to see nine changes from the side that started against Newcastle in the Premier League on Monday.

  3. 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at surprising. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at surprising. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at surprising

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA