• ⦿so remarkably different or sudden as to cause momentary shock or alarm

Semantic relations

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechadjective satellite
wn:example
  1. ⦿startling earthquake shocks
  2. ⦿startling news
  3. ⦿Sydney's startling new Opera House
ontolex:lexicalized senseenl:startling
wn:interlingual indexili:i13070

Other

dc:Subjectadj.all
skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labelstartling