surprising

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   causing surprise or wonder or amazement

   the report shows a surprising lack of hard factual data

2. 2
   adj

   Causing surprise.

   A surprising number of people attended the rally.

3. 3
   noun

   A situation in which somebody is surprised.

   But the comments of most of these novelists are the record of their continual surprisings by the varieties of moral and aesthetic truths.

4. 4
   verb

   present participle and gerund of surprise

Etymology

From surprise + -ing.