Usually means: Unexpected, causing astonishment or disbelief.
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  1. surprising: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. surprising: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. surprising: Collins English Dictionary
  4. surprising: Vocabulary.com
  5. Surprising, surprising: Wordnik
  6. surprising: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. surprising: Wiktionary
  8. surprising: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. surprising: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. surprising: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. surprising: Dictionary.com
  12. surprising: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Surprising: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Surprising: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. surprising: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. surprising: Rhymezone
  17. surprising: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. surprising: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. surprising: Free Dictionary
  20. surprising: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. surprising: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. surprising: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. surprising: Encyclopedia

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  1. surprising: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  Causing surprise.
noun:  A situation in which somebody is surprised.

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