1 interesting and unusual enough to attract attention
SYNMARKED:
a striking feature / example * She bears a striking resemblance to her older sister. * In striking contrast to their brothers, the girls were both intelligent and charming.
2 very attractive, often in an unusual way
SYNSTUNNING:
striking good looks * She was undoubtedly a very striking young woman.
strikingly adverb:
The two polls produced strikingly different results. * She is strikingly beautiful.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for striking is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is striking a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, striking is tagged as adjective.
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