Word Finder - startling

definition

To move suddenly, or be excited, on feeling alarm; to start.

example

a horse that startles easily

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To excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension; to frighten suddenly and not seriously; to alarm; to surprise.

definition

To deter; to cause to deviate.

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A startle; a sudden motion or shock.

definition

Likely to startle; surprising; shocking.

synonyms

• alarming

A startling surprise was at hand.

I'll let you know if we find any startling revelations.

Howie jumped on Betsy, startling us.

Suddenly the startling news reached Worms that Luther had disappeared, no one knew where.

Knox gives us no information as to how this startling change in himself was brought about.

While I waited for my, wife's return I sifted through the startling news she'd told me.

His measures were drastic and their success was startling and the government made him an official of the first rank and restored him to his place in the grand council.

It opens with a startling reversal of the common estimates of happiness and misery.

Go there! she yelled, startling everyone.

In this may be found the germ of the startling modern discoveries in parasitic diseases.

Dean tossed aside the map and papers and flopped down on the living room sofa, startling Mrs. Lincoln.

Startling as such words are, it is perhaps still more startling to find how frequently and naturally, in the highest society, ladies were degraded by personal violence.

The global appeal of restorative justice is truly startling.

In time, however, he perceives that behind the fantastic garb of language there is an earnest and vigorous mind, an imagination that harbours fire within its cloudy folds, and an insight into the mysteries of spiritual life which is often startling.

It seems that we have to suppose that the vasifactive tissue of Arthropoda can readily take the form of air-holding instead of blood-holding tubes, and that this somewhat startling change in its character has taken place independently in several instances - viz.

Not twenty years after Luther's defiance of the pope, the startling thesis " that all that Aristotle taught was false " was prosperously maintained by the youthful Ramus before the university of Paris; and almost contemporaneously the group of remarkable thinkers in Italy who heralded the dawn of modern physical science - Cardanus, Telesio, Patrizzi, Campanella, Bruno - began to propound their Aristotelian theories of the constitution of the physical universe.

But the potato famine and the repeal of the Corn Laws, occurring almost simultaneously, caused an immediate and startling diminution in the number of smaller holdings.

The members live in community, and each pays his own expenses, having the usufruct of his private means - a startling innovation on the monastic vow of poverty.

One of the most startling discoveries of the decade 1890-1900 was the fact that a number of forms are devoid of both gills and lungs, and breathe merely by the skin and the buccal mucose membrane (20).

As for the composition of the Macedonian population, the Turkish commissary 's statements were startling.

The everyday drudgery with which it presents its startling story is actually rather involving.

There are protests and tempers flares into a startling climax with Whitaker shooting the prisoner.

Based on the author's personal diary, the book has a startling immediacy which is complemented by reflections matured over three decades.

The first, maintained by Tom Willis is named, with startling originality 'The Pyramid ' .

Have a nasal polyp all each one startling reminder of license to harrah's.

At one point, the white stone portico of a cemetery appeared out of the darkness, startling me.

I am not going to introduce any startling reforms, nor in any way attempt to make trouble... .

He was also the father of the late Terence Cuneo, the distinguished British Artist whose career bore a startling resemblance to his own.

Nick presents some startling revelations which will simply blow you away.

At last he found a safe retreat in Egypt, where he became the setter forth of strange and startling doctrines.

Suddenly there was a startling flash of brilliant white lightning; thunder rolled and boomed out.

The particulars of the proceedings of Governor Endecott and the magistrates of New England as given in Besse's Sufferings of the Quakers (see below) are startling to read.

It was considered permissible to speculate somewhat vaguely on the subject of the utility of this or that startling variety of structure; but few attempts, though some of great importance, were made systematically to explain by observation and experiment the adaptation of organic structures to particular purposes in the case of the lower animals and plants.

The events of 1789 and the startling success of his younger brother, Marie-Joseph, as political playwright and pamphleteer, concentrated all his thoughts upon France.

The second volume of the translation, completing the historical books, published in 1797, found no more friendly reception; but this circumstance did not discourage him from giving forth in 1800 the volume of Critical Remarks on the Hebrew Scriptures, which presented in a somewhat brusque manner the then novel and startling views of Eichhorn and his school on the primitive history and early records of mankind.

The appearance, in September 1604, of a new star in the constellation Serpentarius afforded him indeed an opportunity, of which he eagerly availed himself, for making an onslaught upon the Aristotelian axiom of the incorruptibility of the heavens; but he continued to conform his public teachings in the main to Ptolemaic principles, until the discovery of a novel and potent implement of research in the shape of the telescope placed at his command startling and hitherto unsuspected evidence as to the constitution and mutual relations of the heavenly bodies.

The lack of details and specifics, considering the importance of the issue and its ramifications for the future, is quite startling.

I am not going to introduce any startling reforms, nor in any way attempt to make trouble....

In that case, why do you feel seventies horror was so startling and original?

The slew of horror movies that has been thrown onto the screen are not about truly scaring the audience, but only startling them.

But a couple of startling strikes from Martin Carruthers and Steve Torpey inside nine first-half minutes wiped the smirks off Swansea faces.

Even without the title, the track is startling, with martial trumpets, drums and wordless vocals creating an amazing atmosphere.

I expect the newspaper to be issuing a mea culpa any day now for the startling inconsistencies in its most recent article.

Now if that wasn't startling enough, it had four cats all dressed up inside it!!

The sight of these animals is so startling that they attract attention wherever they go.

A feminine yet startling look, a tainted fairy is a fun alternative for the Halloween season.

The color is slightly muted, but no less startling in appearance.

They also run the risk of startling some guests with very traditional expectations.

After some startling photos appeared in tabloids, fans began to wonder what happened to Marie Osmond's face.

Head collars work on different principles and are more comfortable for both the animal and the owner, despite a startling resemblance to muzzles.