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say it: sur-PRAHY-zing
surprising is an adjective meaning "causing surprise or wonder or amazement". It is pronounced /sɚˈpɹaɪzɪŋ/ — sur-PRAHY-zing. It carries one recorded sense.
causing surprise or wonder or amazement
“the report shows a surprising lack of hard factual data”
“leaped up with surprising agility”
“she earned a surprising amount of money”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for surprising come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.