different between surprising vs incredible
surprising
English
Etymology
From surprise +? -ing.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /s??p?a?z??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /s??p?a?z??/
- (General American, r-dissimilation) IPA(key): /s??p?a?z??/
- Hyphenation: sur?pris?ing
- Rhymes: -a?z??
Verb
surprising
- present participle of surprise
Adjective
surprising (comparative more surprising, superlative most surprising)
- Causing surprise.
Synonyms
- astonishing, unexpected
Derived terms
- surprisingly
See Thesaurus:surprising
Translations
Noun
surprising (plural surprisings)
- A situation in which somebody is surprised.
- 1983, David Dowling, Novelists on Novelists (page xii)
- But the comments of most of these novelists are the record of their continual surprisings by the varieties of moral and aesthetic truths.
- 1983, David Dowling, Novelists on Novelists (page xii)
surprising From the web:
- what surprisingly happens to churchill in 1945
- what surprising things have gluten
incredible
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin incr?dibilis (“that cannot be believed”), from in- (“not”) + cr?dibilis (“worthy of belief”), from cr?d? (“believe”).
Pronunciation
- (US) enPR: ?ngkr?'d?b?l, IPA(key): /???k??d?b?l/, [????k??????b??], [????k??????b??]
- (UK) IPA(key): /???k??d?b?l/
- Rhymes: -?d?b?l
Adjective
incredible (comparative more incredible, superlative most incredible)
- (literally) Too implausible to be credible; beyond belief; unbelievable. [from 15th c.]
- 1980 September 16, Senator John Glenn, quoted in William A. Schwartz et al., The Nuclear Seduction: Why the Arms Race Doesn’t Matter—And What Does, University of California Press (1990, 1993), ?ISBN, page 29:
- I get lost in what is credible and not credible. This whole thing gets so incredible when you consider wiping out whole nations, it is difficult to establish credibility.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, page 796:
- He therefore found revealed religion incredible in a literal sense, and, as Bayle had done before him, he radically separated morality from the practice of organized religion.
- 1980 September 16, Senator John Glenn, quoted in William A. Schwartz et al., The Nuclear Seduction: Why the Arms Race Doesn’t Matter—And What Does, University of California Press (1990, 1993), ?ISBN, page 29:
- (figuratively) Amazing; astonishing; awe-inspiring.
- (figuratively) Marvellous; profoundly affecting; wonderful.
Synonyms
- unbelievable
Antonyms
- credible
Related terms
Translations
incredible From the web:
- what incredibles character are you
- what incredible mean
- what incredibles 2 character are you
- what incredibles character are you buzzfeed
- what incredible coincidences surround
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