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striking
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?st?a?k??/
- Rhymes: -a?k??
Adjective
striking (comparative more striking, superlative most striking)
- Making a strong impression.
- 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.
- 2016 February 6, "Israel’s prickliness blocks the long quest for peace," The National (retrieved 8 February 2016):
- 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.
Translations
Verb
striking
- present participle of strike
Noun
striking (plural strikings)
- The act by which something strikes or is struck.
- 2012, Andrew Pessin, Uncommon Sense (page 142)
- 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)
Anagrams
- skirting
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groovy
English
Alternative forms
- groovey
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???uvi/
- Rhymes: -u?vi
Etymology 1
groove +? -y
Adjective
groovy (comparative groovier, superlative grooviest)
- Of, pertaining to, or having grooves.
- The back of the tile was groovy so that it could hold the adhesive compound.
- (dated) Set in one's ways.
- 1909, Rudyard Kipling, The House Surgeon
- She'd give anything to be able to believe it, but she's a hard woman, and brooding along certain lines makes one groovy.
- 1909, Rudyard Kipling, The House Surgeon
Translations
Etymology 2
From the phrase in the groove, originally in reference to the grooves of an early phonograph record.
Adjective
groovy (comparative groovier, superlative grooviest)
- (dated, slang) Cool, neat, interesting, fashionable. [popular in the 1940s and again in the 1960s-1970s]
Derived terms
- grooviness
Translations
Noun
groovy (plural groovies)
- (dated, slang) A trendy and fashionable person.
References
- OED 2nd edition 1989
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