causing surprise:
It's not surprising (that) they lost. * We had a surprising amount in common. * It's surprising what people will do for money. * It's surprising how many people applied for the job. * A surprising number of people came.
surprisingly adverb:
She looked surprisingly well. * Surprisingly, he agreed straight away. * Not surprisingly on such a hot afternoon, the river was very busy. * She knew surprisingly little about her sister's life.
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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.
Where does this definition of surprising come from?
This entry for surprising is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is surprising a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, surprising is tagged as adjective.
Does surprising appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — surprising appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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