different between gripping vs engrossing
gripping
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /????p??/
- Rhymes: -?p??
Adjective
gripping (comparative more gripping, superlative most gripping)
- Which catches someone's attention; exciting
- a gripping action film
- Synonyms: interesting, absorbing, fascinating
Verb
gripping
- present participle of grip
Noun
gripping (plural grippings)
- Obsolete form of griping. (pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines)
- 1727, Alexander Hamilton, A new account of the East Indies
- The same Night it began to operate by Grippings and Sweating, and he being bred a Surgeon, took some Medicines to correct the Grippings, which in some Measure the Medicine did, but he lost his Appetite […]
- 1727, Alexander Hamilton, A new account of the East Indies
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engrossing
English
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?n???o?s??/, /?????o?s??/
- (UK) IPA(key): /?n?????s??/, /???????s??/
Adjective
engrossing (comparative more engrossing, superlative most engrossing)
- Utterly consuming one's time and attention.
- Synonyms: absorbing, fascinating
Translations
Verb
engrossing
- present participle of engross
Noun
engrossing (plural engrossings)
- The act of one who engrosses, or buys up wholesale.
Anagrams
- grossening
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