Usually means: Captivating attention, arousing intense interest.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. gripping: Merriam-Webster
  2. gripping: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gripping: Collins English Dictionary
  4. gripping: Vocabulary.com
  5. Gripping, gripping: Wordnik
  6. gripping: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. gripping: Wiktionary
  8. gripping: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. gripping: Dictionary.com
  10. gripping: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. gripping: Rhymezone
  12. gripping: FreeDictionary.org
  13. gripping: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. gripping: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. gripping: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. gripping: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gripping: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gripping: Medical dictionary

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  1. gripping: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gripping: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Which catches someone's attention; exciting
noun:  The act of forming a grip.
noun:  Obsolete form of griping (“pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines”). [Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines; gripe.]

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