starting

1. 1.

   (especially of eyes) bulging or protruding as with fear

   “with eyes starting from their sockets”

   Similarprotrusive
2. 2.

   appropriate to the beginning or start of an event

   “the starting point”

   “hands in the starting position”

   Similaropening

1. 1.

   a turn to be a starter (in a game at the beginning)

   “he got his start because one of the regular pitchers was in the hospital”

   “his starting meant that the coach thought he was one of their best linemen”

   Synonymsstart

   Broaderturn

Other forms of starting

plural

startings·

comparative

startinger·

superlative

startingest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about starting

What does starting mean?

starting means "(especially of eyes) bulging or protruding as with fear". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in starting?

starting has 2 syllables: star-ting. The stress falls on "star". In IPA it is /ˈstɑɹtɪŋ/.

What is another word for starting?

Close synonyms include start. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is starting a common word?

starting is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.