1 extremely unusual and surprising:
a startling contrast / discovery * startling revelations in the Sunday papers
2 (of a colour) extremely bright:
startling blue eyes * Her skin was a startling white.
startlingly adverb:
She was startlingly beautiful. * Their findings are startlingly similar.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for startling is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is startling a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, startling is tagged as adjective.
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