striking

comparative more striking · superlative most striking

1. Making a strong impression.

   He looked quite striking in his new suit and tie.

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   This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. In complexion fair, and with blue or gray eyes, he was tall as any Viking, as broad in the shoulder.

   1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC

   A striking view is obtained from the train of the ruins of the ancient castle, which stands at the western end of the town on a mass of limestone rock rising precipitously from the tidal waters of the estuary of Pembroke River, a branch of Milford Haven.

   1959 October 28, H. A. Vallance, “The Pembroke & Tenby Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 668

   This worrisome tendency was on display in recent weeks as Israelis reacted with striking vehemence to remarks by UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, and US ambassador to Israel, Daniel Shapiro.

   2016 February 6, “Israel’s prickliness blocks the long quest for peace”, in The National, retrieved 08 Feb 2016

   Synonyms: arresting, dramatic

2. not comparableOn strike, taking part in industrial action.

   a striking employee

   Antonyms: non-striking, nonstriking

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of strike

   These included dildos, butt plugs and ball gags made from walrus tusks, canes and other striking implements created from reindeer antlers, and a line of fetish clothing made from the pelts of whatever animals happened to get in their way.

   2005, Annabelle du Fouet, “The murky world from whence it all came” (chapter 2), in Weather Balloons Make Rotten Sex Toys, Ellora's Cave, →ISBN, page 41

plural strikings

1. The act by which something strikes or is struck.

   We've observed plenty of strikings followed by lightings, so even if we should not say that the strikings cause the lightings, isn't it at least reasonable to predict, and to believe, that the next time we strike a match in similar conditions, it will be followed by a lighting?

   2012, Andrew Pessin, Uncommon Sense, page 142