striking
[strahy-king]
- attractive; impressive: a scene of striking beauty.
- noticeable; conspicuous: a striking lack of enthusiasm.
- being on strike, as workers.
- capable of attacking an enemy, especially by air: striking power.
- within the extent of space through which it is possible to attack a target effectively: striking distance.
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Origin of striking
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Contemporary Examples
Displays of malformations were obviously often strikingly offensive, none more so than the “Hottentot Venus.”
Watercolors are strikingly identical and the charcoal works, done with color pencil, are deceptively perfect.
“What he did to the Church internally is a sadder story, most strikingly in his failure on the abuse crisis,” Berry says.
On first impression, the two make a strikingly disparate pair.
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Smith is pale and gangly, sporting a flop of dirty blond hair and a strikingly deep voice.
Historical Examples
How strikingly different is the course of profane and sacred history!
Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. IFrancis Augustus Cox
This principle is strikingly exemplified in military training.
The water is clear and cool, but its current is strikingly sluggish.
FreelandTheodor Hertzka
The hair of an Indian is also strikingly different from that of the whites.
Chronicles of Border WarfareAlexander Scott Withers
It represented a man of about the age of forty, and strikingly handsome.
The Captain of the Pole-Star and Other TalesArthur Conan Doyle
striking
- attracting attention; fine; impressivea striking beauty
- conspicuous; noticeablea striking difference
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Word Origin and History for strikingly
striking
adj.
"producing a vivid impression," 1752, from strike (v.) in the sense of "to catch the fancy of" (1590s).
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